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“This monument symbolizes a lot of things to our community," Niya Bates, 31, of Charlottesville, said, according to NBC News. "So to see that baggage, literal baggage — all of the racism, the history of enslavement, the inequities in our community — picked up, put on a truck and taken out,” was good. Both statues have been up since the 1920s, and will be stored until the City Council decides what to do with them, the report says. In August 2017, white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups de...

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Changes announced this week at Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park, home to the nation’s largest Confederate monument, are “the boldest step that has been taken” at the park since the state bought it decades ago, according to a park official.

Changes announced this week at Georgia's Stone Mountain Park, home to the nation's largest Confederate monument, are "the boldest step that has been taken" at the park since the state bought it decades ago, according to a park official.

STONE MOUNTAIN – The state board that oversees Stone Mountain Park voted Monday to tone down its Confederate imagery but stay in keeping with a state law prohibiting the removal

Georgia officials vote to make changes to largest U.S. Confederate monument Reuters 1 hr ago © Reuters/Dustin Chambers FILE PHOTO: Protesters rally against racial inequality in Stone Mountain (Reuters) - Managers of the largest U.S. shrine to the pro-slavery Confederacy on Monday voted to create a museum exhibit to "tell the truth" about the Georgia monument and its giant carvings of Confederate figures, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. The Stone Mountain Memorial Associations ...

The Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial was chosen to venerate the losing side of the U.S. Civil War, when southern states fought to preserve Black slavery May 24 (Reuters) - Managers of the largest U.S. shrine to the pro-slavery Confederacy on Monday voted to create a museum exhibit to "tell the truth" about the Georgia monument and its giant carvings of Confederate figures, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. The Stone Mountain Memorial Associations board of directors also voted to rel...