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Jackson, Mississippi To Remove Statue Of Andrew Jackson From City Hall

Jackson, Mississippi To Remove Statue Of Andrew Jackson From City Hall

The city of Jackson, Mississippi, voted on Monday night to remove a statue of its namesake, Andrew Jackson, the seventh president, NBC News reported. Jackson is the second major city to remove a statue of the man for whom the city was named. In a five to one vote, the city council enacted a plan […]

4y ago

Gettysburg, South Dakota, Removes Confederate Imagery From Police Cars, Uniforms

Gettysburg, South Dakota, Removes Confederate Imagery From Police Cars, Uniforms

The South Dakota town of Gettysburg, which was named for the Civil War battle of the same name, has removed Confederate imagery from its police patches and other symbols affiliated with the town, The Argus Leader reported. Back in 1884, 21 years after the Union victory in Pennsylvania that is believed to have been the […]

4y ago

Stone Mountain, The World’s Largest Confederate Monument, Faces Calls For Its Destruction

Stone Mountain, The World’s Largest Confederate Monument, Faces Calls For Its Destruction

Stone Mountain, a Georgia Confederate monument that, like South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore, is carved into the side of a mountain, is facing calls for its destruction, Reuters reported. Across the country, in the wake of the George Floyd protests, statues honoring men who fought for the Confederacy have been brought under scrutiny. Opponents say that […]

4y ago

Replace National Anthem With Something Less Militaristic, More Inclusive, Says Historian

Replace National Anthem With Something Less Militaristic, More Inclusive, Says Historian

The national anthem, with its references to artillery and its composer’s connections to slavery, should be replaced with something less militaristic and more inclusive, historian Daniel E. Walker says. As Yahoo Entertainment reported, Walker, the author of No More, No More: Slavery and Cultural Resistance in Havana and New Orleans and producer of the documentary […]

4y ago

President Trump Calls For Arrests, Prison For Protesters Who Vandalize Monuments

President Trump Calls For Arrests, Prison For Protesters Who Vandalize Monuments

President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday morning to promise arrests and jail time for protesters who vandalize monuments, ABC News reported. Though he didn’t specifically mention Confederate monuments, such memorials have been the target of most of the vandalism Trump referenced. In the wake of the George Floyd protests, monuments of Confederate fighters […]

4y ago

Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss Celebrates The Anniversary Of The Court Case That Made Interracial Marriage Legal

Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss Celebrates The Anniversary Of The Court Case That Made Interracial Marriage Legal

Stephen Boss, known primarily as tWitch, took to Instagram on Friday, June 12 to celebrate a very important Supreme Court case that overturned laws banning interracial marriage. This particular court case was Loving v. Virginia and it took place in 1967. In his post, Boss discussed how it is because of this case that he […]

4y ago

‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson Minor League Baseball Card Sells For $492,000 After Initially Being Disregarded As Junk

‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson Minor League Baseball Card Sells For $492,000 After Initially Being Disregarded As Junk

A baseball card from “Shoeless” Joe Jackson’s minor league days, initially discarded as worthless junk, sold at auction for $492,000, CBS Sports reports. Ben Foster had known about his family’s baseball card collection for over a decade but had mistaken the rarest and most valuable piece of the collection as a random, worthless piece of […]

4y ago

French Town Solves The Mystery Of A Strange Cipher Carved Into A Rock 240 Years Ago

French Town Solves The Mystery Of A Strange Cipher Carved Into A Rock 240 Years Ago

Officials in a French village have solved the mystery of a strange cipher carved into a rock about 240 years ago, The Jerusalem Post reports. It seems the message on the stone was a memorial to a friend or colleague of the carver, who died at sea. As reported at the time by The Inquisitr, […]

4y ago

Philadelphia Mayor Tells ‘Mummers’ Paraders To Ditch Blackface Or Lose Parade

Philadelphia Mayor Tells ‘Mummers’ Paraders To Ditch Blackface Or Lose Parade

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney told the leaders of the “mummers,” that is, community groups who march in New Year’s Day parades in elaborate costumes, that if they don’t get a handle on some of their members wearing blackface, their parade is in jeopardy, The New York Times reports. What’s A Mummer And Why Do They […]

4y ago

Why Do People Trick Or Treat On Halloween?

Why Do People Trick Or Treat On Halloween?

While the Halloween tradition of dressing up in a costume and going trick or treating has become a common tradition in our modern world, many people may not know how the practice ever began. The truth is that it actually has a complicated history that dates back hundreds of years, according to website Today I […]

5y ago

Feminist Author Naomi Wolf Realizes During On-Air Interview That A Portion Of New Her Book Is Factually Wrong

Feminist Author Naomi Wolf Realizes During On-Air Interview That A Portion Of New Her Book Is Factually Wrong

An author realized during an on-air interview that a portion of her book is inaccurate because of her mistaken interpretation of a historic legal term, The Hill reports. Naomi Wolf, a progressive writer who first came to prominence in the early 1990s as a major proponent of the third wave of the feminist movement and […]

5y ago

Voynich Manuscript Solved? A Linguist Thinks He’s Figured Out What Language It’s In, So That’s A Start

Voynich Manuscript Solved? A Linguist Thinks He’s Figured Out What Language It’s In, So That’s A Start

The Voynich manuscript, a book of illustrations and text in a bizarre language that no one has been able to make sense of, may have finally been solved, The Guardian reports. Or at least, researchers believe they’ve figured out what language it’s in, as a starting point. The manuscript, for those not familiar, is a […]

5y ago

Venezuela May Become The 9th Nation To Undergo A Successful Coup Since 2010

Venezuela May Become The 9th Nation To Undergo A Successful Coup Since 2010

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has declared the ongoing protests against President Nicolás Maduro as the “final phase of Operation Freedom,” as CNN reports, flanked by armored vehicles and men in military fatigues. That he chose military symbolism is not insignificant — Guaido has declared his intentions to take over the country by military force […]

5y ago

Bradley Cooper Makes BAFTA History With 5 Nominations For ‘A Star Is Born’

Bradley Cooper Makes BAFTA History With 5 Nominations For ‘A Star Is Born’

Bradley Cooper has just made BAFTA history with five nominations for his passion project, A Star is Born, which he produced, directed and starred in. Cooper’s work on the project may have been frozen out at the recent Golden Globe awards, but it seems that across the pond, the actor is being honored for his […]

5y ago

Why Doesn’t America Have A Krampus? Why Does The Demon Only Torment European Christian Children?

Why Doesn’t America Have A Krampus? Why Does The Demon Only Torment European Christian Children?

European Christian children have to contend not just with getting on Santa’s Naughty List, but also have to worry about the wrath of an angry demon named Krampus who will beat them with sticks and drag them to Hell if they don’t behave. Meanwhile, the worst American children have to deal with is the Elf […]

6y ago

Meghan Markle Will Live At Frogmore House, Where Wallis Simpson Is Buried

Meghan Markle Will Live At Frogmore House, Where Wallis Simpson Is Buried

Meghan Markle will soon be moving into Frogmore House, the Windsor family castle where another divorced American woman who married into the Royal Family, Wallis Simpson, is buried. However, the difference here is that Meghan’s marriage into the Windsors doesn’t look like it’s going to threaten the very existence of the British monarchy. As Town […]

6y ago

Historian Ron Chernow To Host, Speak About First Amendment Press Rights At White House Correspondents Dinner

Historian Ron Chernow To Host, Speak About First Amendment Press Rights At White House Correspondents Dinner

The emcee at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner is traditionally a comedic speaker, someone who generally roasts several people in the room from both sides of the aisle in attempts to lighten the mood in the room. This year, however, many journalists feel that there isn’t much to laugh about when it comes to […]

6y ago

Joachim Roenneberg, Who Almost Single-Handedly Thwarted Nazi Germany’s Nuclear Program, Has Died At 99

Joachim Roenneberg, Who Almost Single-Handedly Thwarted Nazi Germany’s Nuclear Program, Has Died At 99

Joachim Roenneberg, a Norwegian war hero who, during World War II, single-handedly destroyed Nazi Germany’s nuclear ambitions, has died, the Norwegian government confirms via ABC News Australia. NOTE: Roenneberg’s name is alternately spelled “Joachim Rønneberg,” retaining the original Nordic letter “ø,” in some sources. For simplicity’s sake, he will be referred to by the Anglicized […]

6y ago

Dogs And Humans Have Been Best Friends In Europe Since The Advent Of Farming, New Research Shows

Dogs And Humans Have Been Best Friends In Europe Since The Advent Of Farming, New Research Shows

Dogs and humans have been best friends – in Europe and Asia, anyway – for about 9,000 years – according to new DNA research. And the arrival of the animals on the continent coincided with the advent of farming, BBC News reports. Every domesticated dog, from the tiniest Chihuahua to the biggest Great Pyrenees and […]

6y ago

Most U.S. Citizens Would Not Be Able To Pass A Citizenship Test, Survey Finds

Most U.S. Citizens Would Not Be Able To Pass A Citizenship Test, Survey Finds

According to NBC, a new survey has found that most U.S. citizens are unable to answer the multiple-choice questions on the U.S. citizenship test. The poll — administered by Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in conjunction with research firm Lincoln Park Strategies — used a test modeled after one given to immigrants when applying for […]

6y ago

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