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When the city of Mobile, Ala., took down a statue of a Confederate naval officer it sparked a conversation about what the statue meant, and how the city's Confederate history should be portrayed.

A Confederate monument in a North Carolina cemetery has been vandalized. 

Mayor Mitch Landrieu and his allies say monuments to Confederate-era figures celebrate the "cult of the Lost Cause" and hold the city back.

A federal judge's ruling allows Maryland to phase out plates featuring the rebel battle flag. The state's move is a reaction to the murders in a black church in South Carolina.