Sentences with phrase «from confederate»

Changing Florida's representative from a Confederate general to a heroic civil rights leader who embodies the best of Florida should make us all proud.

Heading to the governor: A bill to change a statue in the National Statuary Hall in D.C. from a Confederate general to an African - American educator is on its way to Gov. Rick Scott for a signature, the Associated Press's Joe Reedy reports.

The National D - Day Museum is at 945 Magazine St., across the street from the Confederate Museum and next door to the Contemporary Arts Center.

The installation Black Righteous Space dominated the back room: patterns derived from the confederate flag in the Black Panther Party colors of red, black and green fall apart and reconstitute themselves over again as a backdrop for a stage area with a microphone, for visitors to have their voices amplified.

Clearly visible are the phrase «Don't Tread on Me» from the Gadsen flag, the X from the Confederate flag, the horizontal band from the Black Liberation flag, and the stars and stripes from the American flag.

It traces the journey of Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army - the story is based in part on Frazier's great - great - uncle, W. P. Inman.

Some question whether schools here should be named after figures from Confederate history â $ «examples include Lee High School, named after General Robert E. Lee.

Head of the household Martha (Nicole Kidman) is in charge of his care, feeds him, shields him from Confederate officers, and gives him a rather intimate sponge bath, and though the corporal is appreciative, he flirts flagrantly with resident spinster Edwina (Kristen Dunst) and extends his charm offensive to progressively younger women (Elle Fanning, Angourie Rice).

SYNOPSIS: During the American Civil War, a girl from a Confederate boarding school discovers a wounded Union soldier.

Soon enough, however,»... public monuments became a central means of rewriting history from the Confederate perspective -LSB-...]

It's ironic given the fact that Newton Knight's impromptu army tore down the «blood stained banner» and replaced it with the Stars and Stripes in the towns they freed from Confederate control.

West Virginia split from confederate Virginia and officially joined the Union as a separate state in 1863.

Forced to leave his position as minister, Phillip Pearson knows his life is in danger, but not just from the Confederates.

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The nation's largest retailer is removing Confederate flag - themed products from its stock, a spokesperson told CNN.

Governor Nikki Haley called on Monday afternoon for the Confederate flag to be removed from the Capitol grounds in Columbia, saying «it's time to move the flag» in a news conference that came five days after nine people were shot to death at a historic black church in Charleston.

On Monday, Walmart (WMT) announced that it would stop selling Confederate flags at all of its retail locations and remove them from its website.

In June, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley supported the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the state Capitol, and in December, the New Orleans City Council voted to remove four Confederate monuments.

After having voted March 28 to remove the Confederate general's name from the school.

Garzik believes all blockchains, even private chains, must be based on public technology: «And then from side chains, private chains, confederated chain perspective, use that same software and simply build a gate around that permissions who is going to use that system.

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

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

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.

They must have found a loophole in the Confederate States Law Doctrine that forbids black couples from mating without their owners consent.

However the idea of building a mosque next to ground zero is equivalent to opening a bookstore that only sells copies of «The Turner diaries» and flies a huge confederate flag two blocks from the OKC memorial.

The insight of Nuremberg taught us that when we take possession of others, when their bodies are forcibly delivered up to be used as we wish, then no antecedent good will and no subsequent scientific yield will absolve us from having been confederates in their oppression....

The cable network TV Land has pulled reruns of the show Dukes of Hazzard from its schedule following an ongoing national debate over the Confederate flag.

Earlier today, the University of Mississippi removed the Mississippi state flag from its campus because of the banner's Confederate battle emblem.

The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., recently announced plans to remove two Confederate flags from its stained glass windows.

In his article «Universal Dominion: Toward a Unipolar World,» Charles Krauthammer spelled out the unipolarist idea: «America's purpose should be to steer the world away from its coming multipolar future toward a qualitatively new outcome — a unipolar world whose center is a confederated West.»

When, following the Jessica Hahn expose in the spring of 1987, he was finally forced to resign from PTL, Bakker typically explained: «I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends who victimized me with the aid of a female confederate.»

Greene was escorted from the game for waving a Confederate flag while standing in front of «several African American people» during the national anthem, but argued that he was just invoking the First Amendment and should have been allowed to stay.

In June 2015, in the wake of Dylann Roof's murderous rampage at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, legislators gathered to debate removing the Confederate flag from the state capitol.

Then he decided to preach his philosophy during the debate about the Confederate flag being removed from the South Carolina capitol.

Some of the fanatic Napoli boosters in the end zone, the «Southboys,» with their smoke bombs and Confederate flags from the American Civil War, sing their traditional chant, «Maradona is better than Pelè.

A big trawler that's made the trek from a harbor further south flies a confederate flag, even though 72,945 Mainers fought for the Union, and the confederacy attacked Portland Harbor.

It is pretty clear that the striker wanted a transfer away from Arsenal this summer and it is increasingly clear that Arsene Wenger intends to stand his ground and keep him, with The Mirror reporting that the boss has declared that he expects Alexis to begin pre-season training on Sunday, along with our German defender Shkodran Mustafi who is also back late after featuring in the Confederate's Cup final.

Coming from a family that had fought on the Confederate side in the Civil War, and in his early career a bastion of the Old South which resisted every move towards civil rights for black Americans, it fell to him, as president, to put forward the most significant piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's history.

After the uproar from the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville two weeks ago, New York City leaders are debating removing monuments to Confederate leaders like Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson as well as other racist or otherwise problematic figures.

Heastie also weighed in on the push in New York and elsewhere to remove Confederate - related statutes, street names and other references, saying he supports removing busts of Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson from the CUNY Hall of Heroes in the Bronx, perhaps re-installing them in a museum.

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.

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.»

Paladino was removed from the board on Aug. 17, days after violence erupted in Charlottesville amid protests over the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

The University of Texas hastily removed four Confederate monuments from its campus after its president said the statues represented «modern white supremacy» and «neo-Nazism.»

WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP)-- Two members of Congress from New York are pressing Army officials to rename the U.S. Military Academy barracks named for Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

A state agency has been asked to determine the costs of removing Confederate monuments from state property and find alternative spots for their placement, Cooper said.

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.

For the first time in Republican history, most of the party's top legislative leaders came from former Confederate states, where resistance to minority and worker rights was an established tradition.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo will yank the busts of two Confederate generals from CUNY's Hall of Fame for Great Americans in the Bronx, he announced Wednesday night.

The discussion surrounding the Columbus statue began after after a protester was killed during a violent rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia last month stemming from the removal of Confederate monuments.

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.