A Confederate monument is set to be moved from a courthouse lawn on Maryland’s Eastern Shore after officials voted to relocate it to a Virginia battleground.

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Invoking the Holocaust and Sept. 11, attorneys for Black Talbot County residents defend their call for removal of a statue honoring local Confederate soldiers.

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TOWSON — Ellen Drisgill said she was shocked when FBI agents came to her house and arrested her son, a KKK member who police say fired a gun during a recent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Drisgill said she ...

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The Naval Academy superintendent's stately home and a building that houses the academy's division of Weapons and Systems Engineering are both named for Confederates.

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ELLICOTT CITY — A Confederate memorial has been removed from outside a Maryland courthouse. Photos posted on Howard County Executive Allan H. Kittleman’s Facebook show the memorial outside the Circuit Court in Ellicott City being removed Monday night and placed ...

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The violence by neo-Nazis, Klansmen and other racists in Charlottesville, Virginia, outraged decent people across the United States. For the extremists’ ostensible cause – protecting Confederate monuments, such as the Robert E. Lee statue in that Virginia college town’s Emancipation ...

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Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has a few words of advice for leaders in other cities who might want to get rid of Confederate monuments: “Do it quietly and quickly.” On Tuesday Pugh ordered four statues in Baltimore removed under the ...

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Confederate monuments have been removed overnight in Baltimore. Local news outlets report that workers hauled the monuments away early Wednesday, days after a white nationalist rally in Virginia turned deadly. WBAL-TV reports that a crane removed a monument to Robert ...

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In Gainesville, Florida, workers hired by the Daughters of the Confederacy chipped away at a Confederate soldier’s statue, loaded it quietly on a truck and drove away with little fanfare. In Baltimore, Mayor Catherine Pugh said she’s ready to tear ...

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ROCKVILLE — A statue of a Confederate cavalryman has been removed from outside the Rockville Courthouse in Maryland and placed near a privately run Potomac River ferry named for a Confederate general. Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett tells local media ...

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