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Forrest. a forrest park, named for nathan bedford forrest. the first ku klux klan grand wizard. there was a statue that memphis took down in 2017. there was one complication. nathan bedford forrest was physically buried underneath it. nathan bedford forrest's body and his wife was under that statue in that memphis park. when they started digging after they tookte down the statue, it turns out, the directions they had weren't exactly right. they weren't directly under the statue. they were kind of under the plaza in front of where the statue had been. it took them a while hunting around to find...

President trump, roger stone, he is reportedly saying that he, t too, will plead the fifth. we'll have more of that coming up tonight. these touchstones, the symbols of violent insurrections against the u.s. government, they are having a moment right now. just yesterday in richmond, virginia, they started dismantling the pedestal that once held the giant statue of the head of the confederate army, robert e. lee. that came down in september of this year. ralphth northam announced this weekend that the pedestal on which the lee statue stood, that pedestal will come down in richmond. they started...

Of their pretext of holding the unite the right rally in charlottesville. the statue at the center of that didn't come down until july of this year. since then, just a couple weeks ago, the klan and neo-nazi and neoconfederate groups that organized the riots in protest of that statue, having a plan to take it down, those groups were found liable to pay $25 million to the people who were hurt by the white supremacist rioters in charlottesville. look at what's happening in charlottesville right now. late last night, in a meeting that stretched into the early morning hours this morning, the charl...

Years, since roughly 1998, there has been on the outskirts of nashville, tennessee this, hideous 25-foot-tall statue of the founder of the klan. sitting on a piece of private property overlooking interstate 65. you really can see it from i-65. and local residents, local officials, have had a lot of consternation over this for the past 25 years.pa it has flags from the confederate states flying around it, plus lots of confederate flags themselves. and nathan bedford forest on his horse with a gun and a sword in the middle of it. local officials and local residents tried to persuade the state of...

Late last night, in a meeting that stretched into then early morning hours this morning, the charlottesville council took a vote on whatvi to do with the it statue. that robert e. lee statue they finally took down this summer in july, it's 1,100 pounds of bronze. they did finally take p it down from that square in town, five years after local high school studens asked them to take it down. four years after the council said they would. four years after neo-nazis and neoconfederates converged on tho city. they finally took it down. half a dozen groups approached the city saying they wanted the s...