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Iconoclash: Removing racist monuments doesn’t erase history
July 23, 2020For as quickly as empires rise and fall—and fall they will—so too fall their monuments, statues, artwork, and gods.
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Confederate statues are monuments to the ‘Lost Cause’ cult of white supremacy
July 23, 2020Confederate monuments are not memorials to fallen soldiers or to victims of war: They are intentional instruments in revisionist U.S. history pushing a sympathetic view of the Confederacy.
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Anti-slavery solidarity united Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx, and British workers
June 25, 2020Reviving a forgotten history of anti-slavery solidarity.
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Pelosi ordena retiro de retratos confederados del Capitolio
June 19, 2020“No hay espacio en los salones sagrados del Congreso ni en ninguna parte para homenajear a hombres que representan los violentos prejuicios y el racismo grotesco de la Confederación”.
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Real history: Memorial Day was born in struggle against the Klan
May 24, 2019The day people place flowers on the graves of fallen veterans was founded by the enemies of the Ku Klux Klan.
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