Mane Street? Petitions arise to change two Memphis … One petition is to change the name Forrest Avenue in Midtown to Forest Avenue; the other is to change Downtown’s Main Street to Mane Street.
Confederate groups to protest on Ole Miss campus … At least two Confederate groups plan to march in Oxford and near the campus of the University Of Mississippi this weekend.
Lawmakers announces bill to change meaning of star … That single blue star on Arkansas’ state flag is causing quite the stir. Rep. Charles Blake, a Democrat from Little Rock, filed a bill that would change what that star stands for.
GOP leaders seek to limit local community oversight … Tennessee Republican lawmakers on Monday introduced legislation limiting the powers of community oversight boards just months after Democratic-leaning Nashville passed a referendum establishing such a group to investigate police misconduct claims.
Judge overturns Alabama law protecting Confederate … (CNN) — As controversy mounted about removing Confederate monuments from public spaces across the United States, Alabama passed a law in 2017 that protected them. But this week a judge overturned the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act, a law meant to prevent the removal, relocation, or alteration of historical monuments. A 10-page ruling, issued by Jefferson […]
Groups using Super Bowl in push against Confederate … A coalition of civil rights groups in Atlanta is using this year’s Super Bowl to help kick off a renewed “war on the Confederacy,” in a fight to remove Confederate monuments around the nation.
Live at 9: Forrest statue battle, Waitress, Kountry … Check out all the Live at 9 interviews from Friday, December 2018.
Take ‘Em Down 901 activist takes aim at mayor on … MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A series of events Thursday marked the one year anniversary of the removal of two confederate statues from Memphis parks. But a year later, some are finding that the memories of Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest are harder to remove than their statues were. “That pedestal still casts a big shadow […]
Former parks of Confederate statues face uncertainty MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Groups in Memphis came together Thursday to commemorate a year since the city’s Confederate statues were taken down, but it comes in a time of uncertainty for the parks. The City of Memphis sold the two parks where the statues of Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest once stood to Memphis Greenspace, […]
Descendants of Bedford Forrest file lawsuit against … The descendants of a Confederate general filed a lawsuit in a Memphis court seeking the return of a statue removed last year.
Candlelight vigil planned to mark anniversary of … A candlelight vigil remembering slaves traded by Nathan Bedford Forrest is among activities planned this week to mark the one-year anniversary of the removal of Confederate statues from Memphis public parks.
