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Robert E. Lee High School in Virginia is getting a name change after the school board voted to rename the school after the late congressman John Lewis.

Rev. Robert W. Lee IV, a descendant of General Robert E. Lee, testified in front of the House Natural Resources subcommittee on Tuesday in favor of removing statues of the Confederate general.

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 city of Charlottesville is preparing to appeal its defeat in a lawsuit over two Confederate monuments.

In an effort to save dwindling space, the Army is proposing new rules to limit who can be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Under the current rules, the cemetery would run out of space by the mid-2050s, the Army says. The proposed restrictions would preserve the cemetery’s lifespan for another 150 years.

A Virginia judge has blocked the city of Charlottesville’s effort to remove Confederate statues. The Daily Progress reports the three-day civil trial that ended Friday included a judge’s ruling preventing the removal of statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.

A photograph of three University of Mississippi students posing with guns beside a bullet-pocked and oft-vandalized historic marker to lynching victim Emmett Till has sparked a possible federal investigation and suspensions of the three by their fraternity. The Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting first published a story about it Thursday, saying the image had circulated on the men’s social media...

A Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, that became a rallying point for white nationalists has been vandalized with an expletive against President Donald Trump

When Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam refused to resign last week, he did so in the shadow of a Capitol built by a founding father and a slave owner, in the former seat of the Confederacy still wrestling with what to do about statues that honor those who fought to preserve slavery. The 35-year-old photo on his yearbook page of a...

An Ohio man charged with killing a woman during a white nationalist rally in Virginia plans to argue that he believed he was acting in self-defense when he drove his car into a crowd of counter protesters.

A planned “Unite the Right” rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville exploded in chaos: violent brawling in the streets, racist chants, smoke bombs, and finally, a car speeding into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing one and injuring dozens more. Afterward, President Donald Trump enflamed racial tensions when he said “both sides” were to blame, a comment some saw as a...

A large crowd is marching through Center City, Philadelphia in response to violent clashes at a white nationalist rally in a Virginia college town that left at least one person dead and dozens injured.

A crowd, estimated to be over 2,000 people, marched through Center City, Philadelphia in response to last weekend’s deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

A day after tensions between police and community activists nearly boiled over on the University of Virginia’s campus, the city of Charlottesville marked Sunday’s anniversary of a deadly gathering of white supremacists with a rally against racial hatred. On Sunday morning in Charlottesville, a crowd of more than 200 people gathered in a park to protest racism and mark the...

Grants totaling $1.1 million will help support important African-American heritage sites including the homes of jazz musician John Coltrane and playwright August Wilson, a Virginia location central to the slave trade and civil rights locations in Birmingham, a preservation group announced Friday. The money from the African-American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is part of an effort by the National Trust...

A space at a Baltimore park that had long honored two Confederate generals has been rededicated to abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The Baltimore Sun reports that hundreds of people gathered Saturday for the ceremony at Wyman Park Dell.

More than 150 years after the Civil War ended, Americans continue to argue over the circumstances that led up to the bloodiest conflict in our short history.

White millennials are divided on whether they think President Donald Trump is racist, an opinion held by overwhelming majorities of their minority counterparts, a new poll revealed Tuesday. And while all millennials agree that African-Americans experience the most racial discrimination, young whites are also split down almost the exact same lines on whether they think discrimination against whites is as...

Officials at a San Antonio school district have voted to rename a high school because of its ties to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, though one trustee says it doesn’t change much.

White nationalist Richard Spencer led a demonstration Saturday night of tiki torch-wielding protesters in a Charlottesville, Virginia, park where a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee stands, police said. The group of about 50 walked into the park after arriving in a tour bus at about 7:40 p.m. and stayed for about 10 minutes, Charlottesville police said. The group...