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By Ben Gibson | Statesville Record & Landmark The battle over the Iredell County Confederate Memorial is in a new phase after a group of plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding the county remove the statue. In the press release, the group said the Iredell County Commissioners' vote to begin the removal process — before seemingly backtracking — was one of the reasons the lawsuit was filed. "In fact, on March 3 of this year, the Iredell County Board of Commissioners voted to remove the Confederate Monument, admitting in their Resolution that the monument 'occupied a p...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have selected Barber, a fiery preacher and anti-poverty activist, as one of several Black clergy to bless their incoming administration.

North Carolina's Reverend Barber Picked to Deliver Homily for Biden Inauguration The Rev. William Barber: "We're going to make the legislators hear us at Moral Mondays, and then we're going to follow them back home." North Carolina's thunderous Civil Rights titan Rev. William J. Barber II will deliver the homily at the inaugural prayer service for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris this week.  Barber's role in the ceremony was announced Tuesday by Biden's inaugural committee, according to Barber, 57, rose to fame organizing Moral Mondays, a series of...

Robert E Lee Statue Vanishes Overnight from Capitol   They took down “Marse Robert” from the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. Even though it’d been there for over 100 years, the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee came down overnight Sunday to no fanfare, no whoops from the woke crowd. The only people to observe its removal were Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), VA Rep. Jennifer Wexton, and a representative from VA Gov. Ralph Northam’s office. On the opposite side of the country, in California, Nancy Pelosi cheered the removal of the Lee statue in a statement: