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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s scant evidence that even a majority of African Americans favor tearing down Confederate statues. In The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the historian Edward Gibbon notes that in ...

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 ...

Are they really that meaningful and if so should African governments change them to keep everybody happy? How important is your country's flag to you? Let us know your views. A selection of them will ...