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Like The Flag, Confederate Monuments Have Been 'Severely Tainted'

6:33pm August 20, 2017

What most don't know is the reason why some of these monuments were erected in the first place: as a scare tactic. NPR's Dwane Brown speaks with University of Georgia history professor James Cobb.

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Arts

Social Satirist Dick Gregory Was The 'First To Have A Crossover Market'

6:31pm August 20, 2017

Funny man George Wallace remembers how comedian and activist Dick Gregory opened the door for black comics to enter the mainstream. Gregory died Saturday at age 84.

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Robert E. Lee's Descendant On Confederate Statues

7:59am August 20, 2017

The Rev. Robert Wright Lee, a nephew many generations removed of Robert E. Lee, tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro why the statue of the Confederate general in Charlottesville must come down.

Code Switch is tackling your trickiest questions about race relations.

Religion

How To Talk Race With Your Family: Ask Code Switch

5:57am August 20, 2017

We asked you to send us your racial conundrums. And in the first 'Ask Code Switch,' we take on a big one: How do you talk to family members whose racial views seem stuck in the Stone Age?

The Ku Klux Klan protests on July 8, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.

National

Tracing The Dark Origins Of Charlottesville's KKK

7:45am August 19, 2017

by Kat Chow

In the comments of residents processing what happened in Charlottesville, a common refrain emerged: "This is not us." But the city's history tells a different story.

Workers use a crane to lift the monument dedicated to former Chief Justice of the United States Roger Taney in Annapolis, Md., early Friday. The State House Trust voted Wednesday to remove the statue from its grounds.

Maryland State House Removes Statue Of Judge Who Wrote Dred Scott Decision

1:57pm August 18, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

The infamous 1857 decision upheld slavery and declared that blacks were not citizens. Maryland's State House Trust voted Wednesday to remove the statue from its grounds, where it stood for 145 years.

Francine Anderson grew up in a small town in Virginia in the 1950s. She says that when she was 5 years old, she first realized that the color of her skin could put her in danger.

National

After 60 Years, Girl's Experience At Whites-Only Gas Station Still Hurts

4:29am August 18, 2017

An African-American woman remembers growing up in segregated Virginia in the 1950s, and being in the car when her father tried to get gas from a whites-only truck stop.

White supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Va., to protest the pending removal of the statue of Robert E. Lee in the city's Emancipation Park.

'We're Not Them' — Condemning Charlottesville And Condoning White Resentment

6:42pm August 17, 2017

A scholar and a journalist offer context and analysis on the events in Charlottesville and the politics of white anger.

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The Charlottesville, Virginia site where Heather Heyer was killed during a white nationalist rally last weekend.

For Black Activists, Charlottesville Is Part Of A Long History Of Racial Strife

4:03pm August 17, 2017

by Hansi Lo Wang

The recent violence in Virginia has brought more attention to neo-Nazi groups. But black activists say they've been fighting white supremacy all along.

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Workers load a statue of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson on a flatbed truck in the early hours of Wednesday in Baltimore. A campaign to remove symbols of the Civil War-era, pro-slavery secessionist republic is gathering mome

Trump Defends 'Beauty' Of Confederate Memorials

3:15pm August 17, 2017

by Danielle Kurtzleben

The tweets come after days of the president whipsawing back and forth on his response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., that led to the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer.