Confederate Leaders’ Descendants Say Statues Can Come Down

Great-great-grandchildren of Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee disagree with President Trump that moving Confederate monuments destroys American history and culture.

Charlottesville Violence Spurs New Resistance to Confederate Symbols

By NICHOLAS FANDOS, RICHARD FAUSSET and ALAN BLINDER August 16, 2017 BALTIMORE — It happened in the dead of night. Around midnight, as Tuesday turned into Wednesday, a crew of police officers and workers wielding a large crane began...

Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues; Mayor Cites Public Safety

By NICHOLAS FANDOS, RUSSELL GOLDMAN and JESS BIDGOOD August 16, 2017 BALTIMORE — It was “in the best interest of my city,” Mayor Catherine Pugh said Wednesday, as she explained why she ordered Confederate monuments removed...

Holocaust Memorial in Boston Is Vandalized for Second Time This Summer

By CHRISTINE HAUSER August 15, 2017 A Massachusetts teenager has been charged with vandalizing a Holocaust memorial in Boston, in what the city’s police commissioner called a “senseless and shameful” act, particularly after the neo-Nazi...