Confederacy
The holiday isn’t just about emancipation, it’s about the defeat of the traitorous Confederacy. The modern Republican Party is its natural successor.
Manatee County residents were furious this week when the county quietly removed from the agenda a “repugnant” proposal to bring the statue back.
A huge crane was pictured at the Confederate monument early Wednesday, a week after the Virginia Supreme Court rejected two challenges to the statue’s removal.
The “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” star was Queen of the Veiled Prophet Ball as a teen in 1999. It was founded by a Confederate soldier but its ties to the KKK are tenuous at best.
Now that’s progress: A state commission has recommended that Virginia’s Lee statue be removed from Statuary Hall and replaced by a Black female civil-rights icon.
Ten years after her Oscar nomination for “Precious,” Sidibe talks about how she learned to own her power, body, and joy, and why her role in the drama “Antebellum” is so personal.
The legendary actor and filmmaker opens up to Marlow Stern about his new travel app HearHere, Trump’s dismantling of the U.S. Postal Service, and his greatest hits.