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NYC votes for reparations task force: Letters to the Editor — S꧒ep. 16, 2024

NY Post readers discuss New York City lawmakers voting on a biౠll to study potential compensation for slavery reparations. 

♏ Bronze statue of late Congressman John Lewis replaces more than 100-year-old Confederate monument 

🅰 In DeKalb County where the Confederate monument stood for more than a century, protesters have invoked “good trouble” in 🌃calling for the swift removal of the obelisk. 

Virg🍸inia school🌳 board overturns old vote and renames two schools after Confederate icons 

WOODSTOCK, Va. (AP) — A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the naꦅmes of Confederate military leaders to a high school and 🌱an elementary school, four years after the...

Banning Trump from the ballot: Colorado court's gift to The Donald

🔯 The justices’ es🐭sential point? Orange man bad.

Arlington National Cemetery prepares to remove Confe🌠derate Memor🎀ial despite GOP opposition

Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin "disagrees with the Biden adm♛inistration's decision to remove" the monument and plans toဣ move it to the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park.

Charlottesville statueꦓ of Robert E. Lee secretly melted down 6 years after deadly rally

𒆙The statue of Robert E. Lee that stood in Charlottesville was incinerated in a 2,250-degree furnace Saturday.

Fort Gordon, last Army base honoring Confederate general, renamed Fort Eisenhower  ☂ ꦿ

The Army expects to co♈mplete the re-designations of thousands of streets and structures by Jan. 1, 2024. 

Newly elec🌠ted Jacksonville mayor sets aside $500K to remove Confederate statue

Donna Deegan -- a progressive Democrat who toppled her Republican opponent to win the mayoralty in Flori𝄹da Gov. Ron DeSantis' backyard -- had pledged to topple the monument and lined...

♓ Fort Bragg drops Confederate namesake for Fort Liberty as part of US Army base rebranding

Fort Bragg shed its Confederate namesake to become Fort Liberty in a ceremony some veterans said was a small but impor♒tant step. ܫ 

US Navy renames 2 ships in bid to sink Confederate ties ꦺ

The US Navy is renaming two of its vessels as part of the Biden administr🏅ation’s ongoing efforts to cut ties with Confederate history.

West Point remo🍸ves Conꦫfederate monuments, including Robert E. Lee

ꦦ West Poཧint has begun removing Confederate monuments at the campus.

Putin's Confederacy playbook: Biden can turn it around on him by unleashing US energy

 The Confederacy shows Putin is playing a losing ܫgame, but Americans cannot win without competing.

Pentagon spends $2🌺1M on Confederate base renamings ꦿ

In 90 day🤡s, nine Army bases long named for Confederate generals will “immediately” begin swapping to more palatable labels. 

 Florida city vo🌜tes against removing Confederate statues

R🍌emoving the two monuments would have cost taxpayers $500,000.

 🦂 Proဣ-Confederate protesters march in Stone Mountain Georgia

About 200 members of the Sons of Confederate Vཧeterans in Georgia were met by counter-protesters as they g💞athered at Stone Mountain to commemorate the group's unofficial "Memorial Day."

Here's what was found inside second time capsule buried at site of Robert E. Lee statue

Confederate memorabilia and ammo were pulled T♏uesday from a 19th century time capsule that had been embedded in a massive pedestal under a Robert ♐E. Lee statue in Richmond, Va.

Black man gets new trial afte꧂r jury 🅺met in room with Confederate symbols 

Tim Gilbert was granted a new trial Friday by the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals after being convicted by an all-white jury who deliberated in a roomꦑ adorned with Confedera🐎te...

Famed cathedral nam🦋es🅘 artist to replace Confederate windows

Washington National Cathedral announced Thursday it has chosen contemporaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚry artist Kerry James Marshall, renowned for his wide-ranging works depicting African American life.

Trump decries removal of Robert E. Lee statue: 'Our culture is being destroyed'

Former President Donald Trump ripped removal of a massive statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. L🎃ee in Richmond, Va., ღWednesday, warning that "our culture is being destroyed and our history...

  People cheer as statue of Confederate general finally re💝moved 🥂

  A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that is one of America's largest monuments to the Confederacy was host🔯ed off its pedestal and removed Wednesday to cheers ♏in Richmond,...