Confederate Monuments

America's reckoning with racism has brought down statues, one state flag and one police emblem, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center — and led to the renaming of schools and other sites.

The GOP-controlled Senate overwhelmingly approved the measure, which the president has threatened to veto because it calls for changing the names of military bases honoring Confederate leaders.

Democrats say they want to remember history, but not honor Confederates. Their bill also calls for removing a bust of Justice Taney, author of a landmark case barring citizenship for an enslaved man.

This episode originally aired on June 24, 2020.The statue of Christopher Columbus at City Hall will be removed in response to calls against the…

The statue of Christopher Columbus at City Hall will be removed in response to calls against the glorification of the man who colonized the Americas at…

Contradicting Trump, the GOP-led Senate Armed Services Committee greenlights a commission to rename Army installations bearing Confederate names. Lawmakers in the House are taking similar action.

New attention from people protesting police brutality and racial injustice is changing the way cities and campuses in the American South regard symbols of white supremacy.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced that the monument honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will removed "as soon as possible."

After last year's deadly clash between white nationalists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, the federal government quietly spent…

A small monument honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that sparked debate and was removed after the white supremacist rally in Charlottesille, Va., is…