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RELATED STORIES NASCAR ratings are up slightly since June 10, when the sport announced that it would prohibit the display of the Confederate flag from all events and properties. That year-over-year data point, shared by a Fox Sports exec, runs contrary to a claim made on Monday morning by President Donald Trump. “Has @BubbaWallace apologized […]
Gerry Broome/AP A Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill was toppled during a rally by hundreds of protesters who decried the memorial known as “Silent Sam” as a symbol of racist heritage. Once it was on the ground, demonstrators kicked it and cheered. UNC leaders previously said state law prevented the […]
About a month ago, we learned that the creators of Confederate – HBO’s alternate history series that drew widespread controversy based on the premise alone – were “not actively working on” that show at the time. Two of Confederate’s four creators, David Benioff and Dan Weiss, are slightly busy pulling together the final season of HBO’s Game of […]
Ivanka Trump/Twitter Ivanka Trump sparked controversy on social media this week when she posted a photo of her husband and son on a boat in Florida with a Confederate flag in the background. It is unclear whether the inclusion of the flag, which was flying from a neighboring boat, was intentional. Critics lashed out at […]
With Game of Thrones coming to an end after the upcoming final season, HBO is looking for ways to keep the network relevant and keep its subscribers hooked on its high-quality shows. So the network heads must have thought they hit the jackpot when GOT creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss came to them with news that they wanted […]
The gun looks puny compared to today’s mounted weaponry. But the 10 men of the Wilmington Light Infantry posed around it with jaunty pride. Without it, they would have been a makeshift contingent of civilians manning an ad hoc paramilitary unit. Even their gun wagon was repurposed, a dray from the Wilmington Transfer Company. This […]
Outrage erupted online after the Latino Victory Fund targeted Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie in an inflammatory ad, showing a pickup truck with a Gillespie bumper sticker and a Confederate flag chasing down non-white children. The ad, which was released on Monday, shows a group of minority children running as the truck pursues them. […]
ABC’s Designated Survivor this week inadvertently rips from the headlines, with a storyline about the propriety of Confederate statues that was filmed weeks before the infamous Aug. 11 rally in Charlottesville. RELATED2018 Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? The real-life rally, in which white supremacists converged on the Virginia town to protest the […]
Published time: 16 Sep, 2017 23:01 Edited time: 16 Sep, 2017 23:27 Several hundred protesters have outnumbered and surrounded a small number of activists which assembled at the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond Virginia to protect the historic heritage. A few dozen activists turned up Saturday morning to an event organized […]
Published time: 31 Aug, 2017 14:30 Whether you sing about him or have a name like him, no link with Robert E. Lee is off limits to activists. As statues of the Confederate general are toppled across the US, we look at which symbols have been targeted and ask which could be next. Johnny Cash […]
