The Latest Breaking News from Confederacy

Once we take down Confederate statues, Texans must still grapple with monsters in the past.

Confederate monuments burst into public consciousness in 2015 when a shooting at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, instigated the first broad calls for their removal. The shooter intended to start a race war and had posed with Confederate imagery in photos posted online.

With barricades surrounding the Manhattan criminal courthouse and plainclothes officers ordered to dress in their full uniforms, it’s only human to ponder the wisdom of trying Donald Trump for a nonviolent offense related to buying a porn star’s silence.

Nine U.S. Army bases are being redesignated, shedding names honoring the Confederacy.

States across South have removed monuments to pro-slavery Confederacy

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The United States Naval Academy renamed its engineering building Friday after Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President and 1946 academy graduate.

Odds are, Thursday’s state holiday came and went without most Texans noticing it.

AUSTIN, Texas — Two days after the country celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, state Rep. Jarvis Johnson, D-Houston, stood inside the state Capitol and reminded those in attendance that Texas would soon celebrate a holiday honoring the Confederacy.

Two states celebrate MLK and Robert E. Lee on the same day.