Sentences with phrase «confederate statues»

This is the artists» response to their experiences as black women «operating in a system of white male supremacy... at a time when removing Confederate statues are cultural flashpoints.»

At a time when removing Confederate statues — literally white men on pedestals — are cultural flashpoints of whiteness and class, Garner and (Robinson) play with the size, texture, and scale of white monumentality itself, referencing both real and imagined figureheads of historical exclusion.

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We're in an era of recasting the legacy of the South and the Confederacy, particularly with the tearing down of Confederate statues.

When you consider all the ways in which American public education harms the lives of children black and brown as well as denies them brighter futures, it is critical that reformers put as much energy into transforming the systems as some are doing in taking down Confederate statues in public parks.

Students explore the messages within Neo Nazi tattoos and songs before developing an in depth understanding of the wider context of the recent protests in relation to confederate statues.

After the year of Charlottesville and clashes over Confederate statues, how we address the racist history of this country feels remarkably timely, and, hopefully, this film can be an important conversation - starter along those lines.

I don't really buy the «Hollywood coastal elites» stereotype, if only because everyone in Hollywood is from everywhere else, but I do wonder how many of these voting groups are thinking about it as a depiction of a place that's fraught with controversy, both with police violence in Ferguson and controversies about tearing down Confederate statues.

McAuliffe's shift buoyed Virginia Republicans, who have largely been forced to play defense on monuments in this year's race for governor, despite polling showing that a majority of Virginians want Confederate statues to stay put — the position GOP gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie has staked out in his race against Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, D.

While Confederate statues and monuments around the nation get removed, defaced, covered up or toppled, some new memorials are being erected, by people who insist their only purpose is to honor Civil War soldiers who died for the South.

New York voters by a wide margin back leaving Confederate statues and monuments in place, amid a national debate over their place in history.

Why are there so many Confederate Statues in the United States?

His comments come as some have called for the removal of Columbus's statue from Columbus Circle as officials re-assess historic monuments in the wake of an outcry over Confederate statues in southern cities.

Chelsea Clinton weighed in on the controversy surrounding the re-emergence of Confederate statues as a political debate and compared those remembered in the statues to «Lucifer.»

A new poll finds that New Yorkers do not think Confederate statues and memorials should be taken down.

The poll also delved into how New Yorkers feel about Confederate statues and memorials.

Hirsch addressed the rise of organised racism in the US and the casus belli that its Confederate statues have become.

On Friday, DeMarcus Cousins told TMZ Sports about confederate statues: «[They should] take all them motherf ---- s down.»

Durant joins a growing number of professional athletes who have spoken out against racism and disagreed with President Trump's comments on white supremacists and Confederate statues in the aftermath of Charlottesville.

Last year, Memphis found a legal loophole that enabled them to remove two Confederate statues and a Confederate bust by selling the parks that housed the statues to a nonprofit.

As Confederate statues and memorials are being removed across the U.S. following the violence at a weekend rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., President Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday morning to complain about the actions, calling it «sad» and saying the «culture of our great country [is] being ripped apart.»

But during a freewheeling press conference on Tuesday, Trump returned to his original position, labeling multiple parties as complicit in the Charlottesville unrest and seeming to defend some of those seeking to protest the Confederate statue's removal.

Down With the Statues: North Carolina is dismissing charges against several activists who tore down a Confederate statue in Durham last summer, a move that could set an important political precedent.

«This morning we continue our march to reconciliation by removing the Jefferson Davis Confederate statue from its pedestal of reverence,» Mayor Mitch Landrieu tweeted.

Earlier this year there were protests over the future of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville as well as violent rallies by white supremacists and neo-Nazis, prompting the discussion in Alexandria to progress.

When the president called the group of white supremacists who rallied to protect a Confederate statue «some very fine people,» LeBron also used Twitter to voice his frustrations.

The demonstration will be a show of unity against bigotry, hate and racism in the wake of a white nationalist protest protecting a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Va..

Several days later, violent clashes over the removal of a Confederate statue occurred in Virginia.

A Houston man has been arrested after being accused by authorities of trying to damage or destroy a Confederate statue at a Houston park with explosives.

De Blasio launched the statue review last summer amid a national outcry over violence surrounding a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., over the removal of a Confederate statue.

White nationalists and counter protester clashed violently in Charlottesville over the removal of a Confederate statue.

Not Today Satan (2017) pictures a gaggle of Boschian demons shadowing a police car, its «Protect and Serve» slogan rendered absurd by consistent police brutality, while Durham, August 14, 2017 (2017) shows a crumpled Confederate statue, highlighting the recent racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Trump also said if city and state officials were willing to take down statues and monuments of Confederate heroes Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, America's founding fathers — such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — could go next.

White nationalists and neo-Nazis descended on Charlottesville over the weekend to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Trump repeatedly stressed that the rally started over the potential removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

On Aug. 14, Trump issued a stronger condemnation of the white supremacists and nationalists and neo-Nazis who planned the rally to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Confederate leaders / descendants say statues can come down.

On Monday evening, protesters in Durham, N.C., toppled a statue of a Confederate soldier.

New Orleans is continuing its purge of memorials to some of the ugliest chapters in American history by pulling down a 106 - year - old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

That organization removed the statues, one of Confederate President Jefferson David and another of Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest, under the cover of darkness.

Last year, when several cities were taking actions to remove Confederate monuments, Pres. Trump tweeted, «Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments.»

The «Unite the Right» rally — which drew white supremacists and neo-Nazis from around the country — stemmed from protests over the planned removal of a statue of Lee, the Confederate General.

Sadly, most of the debate is anchored in an analysis that freights these bronze statues with the racial politics of our own time — rather than considering the motives of those who raised Confederate monuments in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during the great period of Civil War memorialization.

A quick look at the state's bill tracking data base on Friday didn't turn up any bills to rename or take down places or statues that glorified Confederate leaders or slave traders.

A judge in Charlottesville, Virginia, ruled that local officials must take down the black shrouds covering two Confederate monuments while a lawsuit continues over the city's plan to permanently remove the controversial statues.

Officials in several states are calling for the removal of statues and monuments along with the renaming of buildings and streets associated with the Confederate States of America.

To applause from spectators, workers in Charlottesville covered two statues of Confederate generals with black tarpaulins in honor of the woman who was killed during a rally by white nationalists in the liberal - leaning college town.

Under fire for defending racist activist groups, President Trump said on Twitter that he was «sad» to see United States» history torn apart by the removal of «our beautiful statues and monuments,» echoing a popular refrain of white supremacist groups that oppose the removal of Confederate monuments.

Taking down statues of Confederate figures is «just like» removing a monument to victims of the 9/11 attacks, said Maine Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican, adding that the white nationalist and far - left protesters in Charlottesville over the weekend were «equally as bad» and «disgusting.»