The new law attempts to preserve history by making it illegal to remove monuments that have been in place for more than 40 years. The Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017, signed into law Wednesday by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey
Confederate flags are “selling like crack” on eBay although the online auction giant announced it would “prohibit the sale” of the flags following the June 17 attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Vocativ reports that one seller–Paul Riley–sold enough
On March 29 the Mississippi Senate passed a bill that will allow each church to designate a certain number of congregants as armed guards for the defense of the congregation as a whole.
On August 30 the University of Texas (UT) removed the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from its pedestal in front of the school’s famous clock tower, banishing it to 18 months out of the public eye before it will be placed in a less-prominent history collection indoors.
On August 17, South Carolina state senator Marlon Kimpson (D-Charleston) introduced an “assault weapon” ban and numerous other gun controls to prevent another attack like that which occurred at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17.
On July 10, the FBI reported that background checks did not stop Dylann Roof from acquiring the gun he allegedly used to kill nine people at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17.
Members of a historic black church worshipped at their sanctuary Sunday for the first time since a gunman opened fire at a Bible study, killing nine people, and uniformed police officers stood among the congregation as a measure of added security.
What is believed to be the manifesto of Dylann Storm Roof–who on Wednesday night committed mass-murder against members of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church–revealed that the 21-year-old held deeply racist, anti-American, anti-Semitic, and white supremacist views.
On June 18, President Obama called for Hollywood celebrities to join him in pushing gun control in the wake of the Charleston attack but not every celebrity is falling in line.
Sources tell NBC News that during his confession, Roof said he “almost didn’t go through with it because everyone was so nice to him,” but in the end decided he had to “go through with his mission.”
Justin Miller, a senior editor at the left-wing Daily Beast, has yet to issue a Tweet of any kind calling for prayers or condolences for the victims of last night’s horrific shooting at Emanuel AME, a historic black church in
Individuals gathered together to pray on the streets of Charleston, South Carolina after a shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. A prayer circle gathered at King Street and Calhoun pic.twitter.com/bm5mJDbXLh — Lainie Fritz (@lainiefritz) June 18, 2015 Impromptu prayer Circle
At a press conference early Thursday morning, Charleston, SC police chief Gregory Mullen reported that nine were killed in a shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday that he believes was a hate crime. Mullen said that eight people were
