Florida PhoenixAugust 19, 2021
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Students 'are forced to face their school’s racist legacy every day.'
Tag: Jefferson Davis
Florida PhoenixAugust 19, 2021
Ryan NicolDecember 5, 2020
5min766
Those holidays earned renewed scrutiny following nationwide social justice protests this year.
Associated PressJune 11, 2020
11min295
The movement triggered by George Floyd's death has gone global.
Associated PressJune 11, 2020
5min296
Not the only statue torn down Wednesday night.
Ana CeballosFebruary 6, 2018
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Legislation that would eliminate state holidays honoring Confederate figures advanced in the Senate Tuesday despite pushback from numerous speakers who said the proposal would be “cultural genocide” and an “insult” to their ancestors. “This is cultural genocide,” a man from Jacksonville said. “Southern white people are in the minority. You can’t take away our culture […]
Tamara LushAugust 29, 2017
4min361
After Confederate monument was taken down in Bradenton, a group that wants to preserve such monuments called Tuesday for it to be repaired and restored to its former place on the courthouse lawn. Save Southern Heritage and other groups held a news conference in front of the Manatee County Courthouse to demand that the local […]
Susan ClaryFebruary 16, 20155min229
I finally saw “Selma.” The Oscar-nominated film depicts Dr. Martin Luther King’s push for passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act – the federal legislation that was a crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement. Many protesters, both black and white, were sacrificed during the brutal efforts to make the 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, […]
Guest AuthorOctober 7, 20136min228
The central tenet of the Affordable Care Act — health insurance for almost all — kicked in at the same instant that the government shutdown began last week. It was one of those conjunctions of American history that bleed with irony, like the waning days of the Civil War when Jefferson Davis drafted slaves to […]