The city of St. Louis is busy beginning preparations to remove all Confederate monuments from display. Crews have begun to remove a memorial in Forest Park and working to rename Confederate Ave. to a more appropriate name. Even though the cost to remove the monument is estimated at $130,000, the heated discussion the past few […]

Rich Lagomarsino asserts that aspects of history, or symbols related to certain time periods, should never be covered up, even if they may be difficult to come to peace with. Symbols such as the Confederate flag should be cherished and learned from so that mistakes similar to those made in the past will not be

The city of New Orleans is not able to report how much it spent to remove four confederate statues. There have been several requests filed asking this information to the city, and private donors. While an exact price hasn’t been stated it is on public record that officers worked thousands of hours in over time

The current controversy surrounding Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for the national anthem is discussed in this opinion piece. The author feels that the professional quarterback equating the flag and national anthem with some problems in society takes the focus away from the larger good they represent at home and abroad. Our country is not

A video accompanies an announcement of a discussion regarding whether the Confederate Flag should be able to be displayed within schools in Orange County, North Carolina. After the school declined to ban the flag, the issue was taken up by the County’s Human Relations Committee, who scheduled a panel discussion on the subject. Orange County residents

The Civil War era submarine H.L. Hunley finally saw its crew compartment opened recently after nearly 130 years. Since discovery of the submarine back in 1995, researchers have taken the painstaking work of restoring the vessel. Despite this recent progress, nobody knows how the submarine sank all those years ago, but the hope is that

After university officials on the campus of Ole Miss tore down the Mississippi state flag, some students seek justice. Andrew Soper, senior business major from Tupelo, agrees with his blog post, “Ole Miss has become the University of Nowhere”. The act took place in response to the “Back Lives Matter” movement last fall. The removal