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Petition to label Antifa as terrorists hits 100k signatures required for White House response
A call on the Donald Trump administration to officially classify the Antifa movement as a terrorist organization has reached the 100,000-signature threshold for a mandatory response from the White House.
The petition was launched on Thursday, August 17, and in just three days, by Sunday evening, topped the minimum of 100,000 signatures required to prompt a formal response from the White House.
The...
Democrats call for removal of Confederate carvings off Stone Mountain
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams called for the removal of the giant carving that depicts three Confederate war leaders on the face of state-owned Stone Mountain, saying it “remains a blight on our state and should be removed.”
“We must never celebrate those who defended slavery and tried to destroy the union,” Abrams said in a series of tweets posted early Tuesday, a response...
Torch-Wielding Mob Led by Nationalist Protests Confederate Statue Removal
A large group of torch-carrying white nationalists gathered on Saturday evening in Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest against the removal of a statue of Confederate Civil War General Robert E. Lee.
The city council voted to sell off the 93-year-old monument and replace it with a new memorial dedicated to slaves. A court injunction then halted the removal for at least six months, citing that the...