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Idaho church window once depicting Robert E. Lee now honors Black female bishop
By Adelle M. Banks — December 22, 2021
(RNS) — ‘We recognize this section of our window is more than a benign historical marker,’ the United Methodist church’s leaders said in 2020.
Cathedral to replace Confederate windows with stained glass reflecting Black life
By Adelle M. Banks — September 23, 2021
(RNS) — ‘This will be one of the first Confederate icons that has come down and been replaced with something else,’ said a cathedral official.
Alabama Southern Baptist pastor resigns after speaking at party for a KKK leader
By Yonat Shimron — July 30, 2020
(RNS) — Will Dismukes, who is also a Republican state representative, resigned from his church after offering an invocation at a birthday party honoring a Confederate general who was also the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
Our church was named for Robert E. Lee — here is how we changed it
By Doug Cumming — January 10, 2018
(RNS) — It has been, under the surface, a re-litigating of Lee’s terms of surrender at Appomattox. (Commentary)
Why a classic rock song is wrong
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 21, 2017
The Band was wrong. The ideas that animated "Dixie" deserve to be "driven down."
Mayor of Virginia city targeted by anti-Semitic tweets after criticizing marchers
By Sharon Bernstein — May 14, 2017
(Reuters) Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer was the target of anti-Semitic tweets after speaking out against white nationalists who converged on a local park carrying blazing torches the night before.
Hundreds march for Mississippi flag change
By Therese Apel — October 12, 2015
JACKSON, Miss. – Sharon Brown wants a flag that can unify Mississippians.
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