Sentences with phrase «confederate symbols»

Cuomo, along with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, has called for a removal of Confederate symbols in New York.

Diocese officials announced they would be removing a plaque honoring Gen. Robert E. Lee that has long been affixed to a tree outside a Brooklyn church following the events in Charlottesville last weekend and renewed concerns over Confederate symbols and statues.

Reps. Adriano Espaillat, a New York Democrat, and Dwight Evans, a Pennsylvania Democrat, penned a joint OpEd about the need to remove confederate symbols from their «place of reverence on federal public land.»

The confederate symbol had «very negative connotations,» for African - Americans, Queens Democratic Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry said at the time.

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«We have decided to prohibit Confederate flags, and many items containing this image, because we believe it has become a contemporary symbol of divisiveness and racism,» the spokesperson said in a statement.

The president's initial response to the violent rally on Saturday featuring Confederate and Nazi symbols and slogans broadly condemned «hatred, bigotry and violence» on «many sides.»

The murders have reignited calls for the Confederate flag - a symbol of slavery and white supremacy - to be taken down from public institutions.

The Confederate flag is a symbol of horrific injustices against our African American brothers and sisters in Christ and has been used as a threat of terrorism against them.

WHEREAS, We recognize that the Confederate battle flag is used by some and perceived by many as a symbol of hatred, bigotry, and racism, offending millions of people; and

The «lost cause,» the Confederate battle flag, and other Confederate ideas and symbols were adopted as tokens of white supremacy during the desegregation era.

The Confederate battle flag, a potent symbol of racism since the mid-twentieth century, had hardly been used at all for such purposes before World War II, when the Klan started using it.

Much of the dialogue following the Charleston killings has focused on the Confederate flag, which has long been considered a symbol dividing the South along racial lines.

De Blasio has seized hold of the national debate over the removal of confederate monuments by ordering a review of all possible «symbols of hate» in the city — once again grabbing national attention while simultaneously putting himself in a tricky situation.

Last weekend's deadly protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, has spurred some communities to remove Confederate memorials and symbols or to consider doing so.

Trump hailed the carved symbols of Confederate racism as «beautiful,» and now he's defending statues dedicated to Christopher Columbus — the man responsible for genocide of North America's indigenous people.

The 90 - day review of «all symbols of hate» began in August following the removal of several monuments to controversial historical figures such as Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

De Blasio, a Democrat, has faced criticism from the Italian - American group after he named a blue - ribbon panel last month to examine the city's controversial monuments and other «symbols of hate» in the wake of violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, over a statue honoring a Confederate leader.

In the wake of the deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville this month — which was spurred by that city's decision to remove a statue of confederate general Robert E. Lee and rename a park that bore his name — many other cities and states have moved to take down statues of confederate generals or other controversial symbols.

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday the city will conduct a review of its art, statues, and «all symbols of hate» after the violent protests in Charlottesville surrounding the removal of a statue to top Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

At times, Taylor's shifts between the literal and the abstract are uncomfortable, particularly when they appear as a strategy for avoiding or dismissing the real - life implications of symbols and objects, as in his strictly formal rendering of the Confederate flag in the lithograph Dixie (1990); his series of prints portraying items in Hawaii with a tinge of wanderlust - inspired exoticism, «Ten Common (Hawaiian Household) Objects» (1989); and two bodies of work showing his attempt to depict various African conceptions of multidimensional, nonlinear time: «Latin Studies» (1984 — 85), which includes the aforementioned Untitled (Latin Study), and «Wheel Studies» (1981 — 85).

One of these symbols, the confederate flag, is recast using colors associated with the Black Nationalist party (red, black, and green), intentionally confusing and challenging its fraught meaning.

There is also a beguiling room - sized installation by Hank Willis Thomas that recasts the symbols of the Confederate flag in the colors of black nationalism — and projects them in tune with a soundtrack of spoken - word audio (a piece that Times art critic Christopher Knight describes as «enthralling.»)

There is also a beguiling room - sized installation by Hank Willis Thomas that recasts the symbols of the Confederate flag in the colors of black nationalism — and projects them in tune with a soundtrack of spoken - word audio.