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There was no racial reckoning for George Floyd CNN 55 mins ago Analysis by John Blake, CNN © Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images Demonstrators protest the release on bail of former police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis on October 7, 2020. They tell me I've experienced a "racial reckoning." I keep seeing that phrase pop up in news stories. I hear politicians and CEOs use the term as if there's no doubt it's true. I even put the phrase in one of my own headlines without ever asking myself what a racial reckoning meant. It's hard to avoid using that phrase, because it refl...

More than 2,000 Confederate monuments in southern states remain standing due to legal protections after more than 160 were taken down nationwide in 2020 More than 2,000 Confederate monuments and symbols remain standing across the country largely due to legal protections in southern states The symbols - from monuments to building names - appear in public spaces nationwide, more than a century and a half after the Civil War ended slavery Many monuments, a majority of which went up in the early Jim Crow era, have been removed or torn down by protesters  At least six Southern states have policie...

More than 160 Confederate symbols came down in 2020, SPLC says By: CNN By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) -- More than 160 Confederate symbols came down last year after the killing of George Floyd prompted a nationwide reckoning with racism. That count comes from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which released new figures Tuesday as part of an update to a report that tracks public symbols associated with the Confederacy across the nation. The Alabama-based civil rights advocacy group reported that 168 Confederate symbols were renamed or removed from publi...