A racist massacre at a Black South Carolina church in 2015 and George Floyd’s murder in 2020 intensified a reckoning over the role of Confederate symbols in American public life and government.

The murder of nine African-Americans in a Charleston, South Carolina, church by a self-proclaimed white supremacist — seen in online images holding a Confederate flag and gun — immediately ...

No longer were they considered harmless symbols of culture, commemorating a rebellious spirit. After the South Carolina government chose to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol ...

You can say that these Confederate symbols stand for heritage and free will against the government, but there is no doubt that racists have taken up these symbols to promote hate and white ...