Confederate Statue
According to officials in DeKalb County, Georgia, the commissioners there have decided to replace the 30 ft confederate monument with a statue of longtime congressman and civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis. “John was a giant of a man, with a humble heart,” DeKalb Commissioner Mereda Davis Johnson said in a statement. “He met no […]
Local Washington D.C. Council members have been campaigning for the removal of a Confederate statue of Albert Pike since the early 1990’s but that process was finally sped up on Juneteenth, when a crowd of people used ropes to pull Pike down. Albert Pike was a traitor to his nation and fought to preserve slavery […]
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