Final remnants of Confederate monuments in Richmond could be gone this summer
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RICHMOND, Va. – The final remnants of Confederate monuments in Richmond could be gone this summer. Plans are coming together to remove the final city-owned statue and all the pedestals they once stood upon, according to NBC12 reporting.
“It doesn’t have to be proliferated with painful trinkets of white supremacy,” said Mike Jones, Richmond City Council.
Tuesday will mark the first hurdle for the plans to remove the final pieces of Confederate monuments in Richmond. That’s when the city’s Commission of Architectural Review will see the plans for six sites, mainly along Monument Avenue.
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A warrant is has been issued for the man responsible for removing a Confederate monument from an Alabama cemetery and taking it to Louisiana.
Selma police have charged Jason Warnick with theft for the disappearance of a chair-shaped monument to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Two other people were charged along with Warnick with illegally possessing it after it went missing in March and was found in his tattoo shop in New Orleans.
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This week, the Arkansas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Benton County Historical Society unveiled their plans for James H. Berry Park, which will be home to the Confederate monument that stood on the Bentonville square since 1908. The monument was removed earlier this month. It will be restored and eventually will be the centerpiece of the privately-owned park that will be open to the public.
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Ty Seidule now teaches at Hamilton College, where he s free to share what he s learned about Robert E. Lee. At West Point, that was not the case.
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As a kid, Ty Seidule aspired to be a Southern gentleman like Robert E. Lee. His school text books were filled with praise, and wherever he went in Virginia Lee was a hero.
“I was bused across town in Alexandria from the white elementary school to the segregated all black school, he recalls, and what was the name of that school? Robert E. Lee Elementary, named in 1961.”
Joe Biden Revokes 4 of Donald Trump s Executive Orders: Here s What They Were
On 5/14/21 at 5:54 PM EDT
President Joe Biden has quietly killed four executive orders that his predecessor Donald Trump signed before leaving office, including one that sought to create a garden of statues honoring American heroes and one that Trump signed after Twitter labeled his tweets misleading.
The White House released the news late Friday afternoon without comment and didn t immediately respond to
Newsweek s request for comment.
Executive orders do not carry a legal penalty and can be revoked at the president s will.
Here are the four orders that Biden revoked Friday: