Confederate

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

A federal judge is considering moving the trial in a civil lawsuit filed against organizers of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Virginia.

Washington and Lee University’s trustees have voted against removing the name of Confederate Gen. Robert E

Virginia’s Washington and Lee University is expected to reveal whether or not it will change its name in June, nearly a year after a committee was formed to evaluate the school’s ties to Confederate Gen. Robert E

A group that has flown a large Confederate flag along I-95 in Stafford County, Virginia, for years says it removed the flag Wednesday. Road construction is underway in the area. The Virginia Department of Transportation said Wednesday that the department acquired 10 parcels of land along the highway to build an express lane ramp. On one of the parcels of…

A school named for a Confederate soldier will get a new name. The City of Fairfax school board voted in favor of renaming Lanier Middle School.

After making landfall in Lake Charles, La., Hurricane Laura damaged a Confederate statue, just days after local parish officials had voted to keep it.

The House has approved a bill to remove statues of Gen. Robert E. Lee and other Confederate leaders from the U.S. Capitol, as a reckoning over racial injustice continues following the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in Minneapolis.

A Confederate statue that stood outside the Loudoun County courthouse was removed overnight Tuesday.  Photos show orange cones in the place of the statue in Leesburg, Virginia.  The county board of supervisors voted earlier this month to remove the statue, which the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected in 1908.  The Loudoun County chapter of the group hired a...

Virginia’s James Madison University is renaming three buildings that bear the names of Confederate leaders

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday night to remove a Confederate statue that has stood outside the Leesburg Courthouse for 112 years. The United Daughters of the Confederacy erected this statue in 1908. The board approved having it taken down no later than Sept. 7. People from around the county showed up for the virtual board meeting and…

Mississippi has formally retired the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem.

Mississippi lawmakers are close to erasing the Confederate battle emblem from the 126-year-old state flag.

Leaders of the country’s oldest city have decided to move a Confederate memorial that has been a fixture in its historic central plaza for 140 years.

Portraits honoring four former House speakers who served in the Confederacy are gone from the U.S. Capitol

All nine members of the Montgomery County Council want to change replace any street, school or building names connected to the Confederacy.

A Northern Virginia school superintendent wants to rename a high school and middle school named for Confederate general Stonewall Jackson

The Virginia Senate has advanced legislation to scrap the state’s Lee-Jackson holiday celebrating two Confederate generals.