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A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was a focal point of a deadly white nationalist protest in 2017 has been melted down and will be turned into new art.

A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was a focal point of a deadly white nationalist protest in 2017 has been melted down and will be turned into new art.

(RNS) — ‘It’s taking that culture of death and repurposing it for the sake of life, telling this very long story of resistance to that white supremacist culture,’ said the Rev. Isaac Collins, a Methodist minister who attended the melting.

“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks."

The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, was melted down in a secret ceremony and will become a new piece of public artwork.

Seventeen students gathered in Benson 401 Wednesday evening to share their thoughts on what a campus memorial to “remember and honor the humanity of the enslaved [people] who worked for or were sold to benefit the University” should look like. The event is the first of two student fora on the subject, with the next...

The Pope County Library System (PCLS), Friends of the Latimore Tourist Home, River Valley Collective Voices and the Arkansas Tech University (ATU) History Department and Ross Pendergraft Library hosted an

Friends of the Latimore Tourist Home, in collaboration with Arkansas Tech University, the Pope County Library System and the Russellville Collective Voices, will host an event from 1-5 p.m. on

South Finley Street renamed Linnentown Lane to commemorate Athens neighborhood

A crowd of students from Clarke Central High School, members of the Athens Justice and Memory Project, local political figures, camera crews and more gathered to witness the street renaming