LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: BLM Leader Arrested For Trying To Steal Confederate Flag From Protester BY: AMBER RANDALL Police arrested a Charleston, South Carolina Black Lives Matter (BLM) leader after he tried to steal a Confederate flag at a protest Wednesday. Muhiyidin d’Baha, the leader, attempted to seize the flag from a demonstrator…
by Eric Lieberman An ongoing battle between Alexandria officials and a Confederate advocacy group over a local statue seems to be at a standstill, even after the Alexandria City Council successfully voted to remove the sculpture earlier this month. The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), an association for female descendants of Confederate soldiers, own the…
Amber Randall A Georgia police sergeant was fired earlier this July for flying a Confederate flag over her house. The Confederate flag flew over former police sergeant Silvia Cotriss’s house for over a year, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She told the outlet that she had not received any complaints about the flag from her neighbors during that…
By Jonah Bennett Officials at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Colorado want the Confederate battle flag completely removed from a mural. The Grand Junction medical facility features a mural of the Civil War painted by 72-year-old artist Lee Bowerman and shows a Confederate and Union soldier staring each other down. Bowerman thinks…
The troubles in South Carolina continue to mount, as protestors and counterdemonstrators erupt in anger at one another. A gang of blacks violently attacked a man carrying a Confederate flag as he walked down the street, stealing it from him and laughing. The situation is rapidly escalating.
By Rachel Stoltzfoos Demonstrators waving Confederate flags greeted President Barack Obama in Oklahoma City Wednesday night, bringing an Obama supporter present to tears. Andrew Duncomb, a black man who calls himself “the Black Rebel,” organized the demonstration, in which as many as 10 people waved Confederate flags as Obama’s motorcade arrived, reported Politico. “We don’t believe it’s a symbol of racism,” Duncomb told…
By Blake Neff The Atlanta branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has called for the destruction of Stone Mountain, an enormous bas-relief sculpture commemorating three leaders of the Confederacy. The demand puts them in unusual company: with the Taliban of Afghanistan. Stone Mountain, begun in 1923 and finished in 1972,…
By Blake Neff “Let’s make the Confederate flag a hate crime: It is the American swastika and we should recoil from it in horror.” So opines Nick Bromell, a professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In the wake of a purge that has seen the Confederate battle flag vanish from stores and disappear from…
By Blake Neff A South Carolina representative is made waves late Wednesday night after giving an impassioned four-minute speech calling for the state to take down the Confederate flag. A Republican from Summerville, Rep. Jenny Horne’s speech was immediately prompted by a desire to halt a series of proposed amendments to the flag takedown bill, which she said were…
By Casey Harper A Minnesota volunteer firefighter has been suspended after flying a Confederate flag from a firetruck during a parade. Brian Nielsen, 43, drove the Hartland Fire Department truck through the traditional “3rd of July” parade with a U.S. and Confederate flag on the back of the truck, The Albert Lea Tribune reports. Nielsen was suspended Sunday after outcry over the flag. Nielsen said he…