Banning mere symbols that are perceived to be a threat to our thriving democracy gives those symbols and the few people who want to display them more power, writes Letepe Maisela. This past Wednesday, ...

The national protest movement that has erupted in the wake of George Floyd's death has rekindled a fire under the cultural tinderbox known as the American Confederacy. In the past week, public ...

Flags, statues , monuments, and the ... I have tried to think about what our symbols stand for — the ideal behind them and the ... A plaque commemorating fallen African-American soldiers that ...

“The Russian flag has become a symbol of resistance in West Africa, affiliated with anti-West and anti-French attitudes,” said Kyle Walter, the head of research at Logically, a technology ...

We learn how each of the countries adopted the current colours, what the direct influence is, when it happened, what the flags previously used were, as well as the possible connections between them.

PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA — One day after the funeral of Nelson Mandela, a nine-meter-high statue of South Africa's first black president was unveiled at the country's official seat of government ...

A 12-foot-tall sculpture of a lady, perceived to be an African American woman has been erected at the center of Times Square. The sculpture titled Grounded in the Stars, was recently sighted by ...

The two, both African American and lifelong Richmonders, were unprepared for the statue that greeted them out front. “It’s amazing. Amazing,” Paul Flowers, a pastor, repeated in a hushed voice.

For one, removing Confederate banners and placing them in museums—as President Obama, among others, has urged—is more feasible than dismantling the hundreds of statues, many far too large for ...

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WNCN) – A man showed his pride in the Confederacy Wednesday just two days after protesters knocked down the Silent Sam statue at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill ...

2) Six Flags over Texas management decides to take down all the flags, except the Stars and Stripes, that have flown over Texas and the Six Flags park since 1961. They explained that they wanted ...