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The Loundoun County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday night to go forward with a public plan aimed at removing Confederate and segregationist names from streets and other facilities and renaming them.

Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s polarizing presence has hung over Memphis, Tennessee, since he moved there in 1852 with his family

Local author and historian Ty Siedule talks about his new book “Robert E. Lee and Me” and how it challenges his past beliefs of the confederate legacy. News4’s Shawn Yancy reports.

A statue of Robert E. Lee was removed from the U.S. Capitol on Monday. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., recorded the removal.

The Virginia Military Institute’s board has voted to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson that currently stands in front of the barracks on campus

The massive granite engraving carved into Stone Mountain stretches 90 feet tall and 190 feet wide. Robert E. Lee is as tall as a nine story building and Jefferson Davis’s thumb is the size of a sofa. Alongside Stonewall Jackson, the three men and their horses comprise the world’s largest Confederate monument located in Stone Mountain, Ga....
But the controversy swirling...

Stone Mountain is the latest Confederate monument to come under fire as America reexamines its racist past. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain visits Stone Mountain, Georgia, for a closer look at the controversy.

At a roundtable on the border wall on Tuesday, President Donald Trump offered to help states protect statues by imprisoning anyone caught defacing military monuments after accusing some state leaders of “being very weak in protecting their heritage and protecting their culture.” The president’s comments come after a growing call to remove statues honoring historical figures tied to slavery and...

Despite a South Carolina law protecting monuments, officials in the historic city of Charleston announced Wednesday that they plan to remove a statue of slavery advocate John C. Calhoun from a downtown square. Mayor John Tecklenburg announced he will send a resolution to the City Council to remove the statue at a news conference on the fifth anniversary of the…

As much as President Donald Trump enjoys talking about winning and winners, the Confederate generals he vows won’t have their names removed from U.S. military bases weren’t winners

The military is rethinking its traditional embrace or tolerance of Confederate Army symbols

A prominent and controversial Confederate statue has been taken down in Old Town Alexandria. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.