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BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A state investigator alleged Thursday that a white man was heard saying a racist slur as he stood over Ahmaud Arbery’s body, moments after killing him with three shots from a pump-action shotgun. The lead Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent in the case testified that Travis and Greg McMichael and a […]

Several black state lawmakers pleaded this week for support in addressing the fallout from George Floyd’s death while in custody of Minneapolis police.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The day after hundreds gathered to protest police brutality, shutting down Union Avenue, organizers are clashing with Memphis city leaders on their perspective of how the night was handled.  Black Lives Matter leaders say it’s not the counter protest that upsets them. It’s how authorities handled the events that followed.            The protest […]

Two and a half years after Nathan Bedford Forrest’s statue was removed from a Memphis park, the bodies of Forrest and his wife will be removed as well

First-year Governor Tate Reeves is following the practice of several of his Democratic and Republican predecessors and declaring April as Confederate Heritage Month.

The highest-ranking officer in the US Marine Corps has ordered Confederate-related paraphernalia to be removed from all Marine installations.

CNN — Clive Cussler, the bestselling author and sea explorer, died on Monday, his family announced in a Facebook post. He was 88. In the Facebook post, wife Janet Horvath said it had been a privilege to be with the author over the years. “I want to thank you, his fans and friends for all the […]

The controversial life of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest drew sharp passionate, contrasts Thursday on Tennessee’s Capitol Hill.

Gov. Bill Lee will introduce legislation this year that would amend a law requiring Tennessee to honor Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gov. Bill Lee will introduce legislation this year that would amend a law requiring Tennessee to honor Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Lee’s office confirmed Friday that the Republican was working on the bill. The office did not provide further details. According to […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Confederate monument will remain, for now, in a prominent spot on the University of Mississippi campus, nearly a year after student leaders requested that it be moved to a Civil War cemetery. The board that governs Mississippi’s eight public universities met Thursday and delayed a vote on a proposal to […]