You can remove Confederate statues and still remember history
Veronica Wernicke, Opinion Editor
July 3, 2020
When someone does something great, remarkable, wins a battle or sports championship, among other qualifications, we build them a statue. And the U.S. sure does like statues and monuments -- whether we built them or were gifted them. However, despite the number of great statues and monuments the U...
Wilmington quietly takes down two Confederate statues “to protect public safety”
Caitlyn Dark, News Editor
July 3, 2020
In the very early morning hours of June 25, construction crews were hard at work doing something many Wilmington citizens had long thought impossible: the removal of the city’s two most visible Confederate statues. The city woke up on June 25 to see the statues memorializing the Confederate Attorne...
Confederate statues: should they stay or should they go?
Sean W. Cooper, Staff Writer
June 28, 2017
On May 19th, the New Orleans Police Department gathered around a 16-foot, bronze statue of Robert E. Lee, standing on a 60-foot base, as they prepared for the monument to be taken down. This was the last Confederate statue to stand in New Orleans, after three others had been removed from the city within the pre...