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on August 16, 2017 in World News

Baltimore Removes Four Confederate Statues Under Cover of Night

by Warner Todd Huston In a stealth purging of history, the city of Baltimore removed four Confederate statues from city property under cover of night early Tuesday morning. City crews began the destruction of the monuments just before midnight and finished by 5:30 a.m., the Hill reported. The city council quietly approved the removal late on Monday in a unanimous vote. “It’s done,” Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh told the Baltimore Sun. “They needed to come down. My concern is for the safety and security of our people. We moved as quickly as we could.” advertisement “I did not want to endanger… View Article

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on August 16, 2017 in World News

Safe-Space History: Left-Wing Activists, Complacent Governments Destroy Confederate Monuments Across Nation

by Amanda House The battle over America’s history reignited following the weekend’s deadly events in Charlottesville, Virginia. The protest against the scheduled removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee led leftist organizations and politicians to step up their long-running war on Confederate monuments. Protesters in Durham, North Carolina took matters into their own hands Monday, destroying a nearly century-old monument to the state’s civil war dead. More than 30,000 North Carolinians died fighting for Southern independence from 1861 to 1865, a figure representing around one-in-eleven white men in the state. After tieing a “bungie-like cord” around the neck and arm of… View Article

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