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Answers on removal of Capitol monuments surface after 4 years

May 30, 2024 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — After four years of records requests, North State Journal has received some answers about the monuments removed in 2020 from the Capitol grounds in Raleigh. North State Journal originally asked for details about […]

NC Supreme Court dismisses suit to return Confederate statue

December 18, 2022 Hannah Schoenbaum

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that the local chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy lacks standing to challenge the city of Winston-Salem’s removal of a Confederate monument on private property, but […]

Virginia is set to remove Richmond’s Lee statue on Wednesday

September 7, 2021 Denise Lavoie, Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. — A towering statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, is set to come down on Wednesday, more than 130 years after it was built as a tribute to a […]

Senator: ‘I will be vindicated’ in Confederate monument case

August 18, 2020 Ben Finley and Denise Lavoie, Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia state senator charged with damaging a Confederate monument said Tuesday that she will beat the case against her. “It’s just an unnecessary nuisance, but you know what? I will be […]

Museum: ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ car with Confederate flag to stay

July 6, 2020 The Associated Press

VOLO, Ill. — A northern Illinois auto museum has no plan to stop displaying a Dodge Charger from the “Dukes of Hazzard” television show with the Confederate battle flag painted atop the vehicle. Statues of […]

Confederate cannons removed from Raleigh now at Fort Fisher

June 30, 2020 The Associated Press

WILMINGTON — Two Civil War cannons that were at a Confederate monument in Raleigh are now at Fort Fisher. The Wilmington Star News reports that the naval cannons arrived Sunday after they were removed with […]

Cooper says statue removal fault of General Assembly

June 24, 2020 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — Over the weekend, Gov. Roy Cooper said his decision to remove certain Confederate monuments from the Capitol area grounds was due to a 2015 law passed by the state’s legislature. “I have ordered […]

Trump says he’ll issue executive order to protect monuments

June 23, 2020 Darlene Superville, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’ll issue an executive order to protect monuments that are coming under new scrutiny as America wrestles with racism during the unrest sparked by the police killing […]

While Confederate statues come down, other symbols targeted

June 21, 2020 The Associated Press

RALEIGH — Spectators in North Carolina’s capital watched Sunday morning as work crews finished the job started by protesters Friday night and removed a Confederate statue from the top of a 75-foot monument. Across the […]

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Protesters rip down two confederate statues from Capitol monument

June 20, 2020 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — On Friday night in Raleigh, protesters surrounded a monument dedicated to dead Confederate soldiers and over the course of several hours pulled down two of the statues mounted on it. One of the […]