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New Legislation Would Cut the Salaries of University Presidents Who Refuse to Fly Mississippi …

A Mississippi lawmaker wants to withhold a quarter of the salary of any president of a university that refuses to fly the state flag. Mississippis failure to remove the Confederate imagery is a polarizing symbol that is a barrier to progress and improved understanding of our state, our university, and our people. That same month,

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School boss changes ruling, bans Confederate flag clothes

Plum Borough School District Superintendent Timothy Glasspool banned students from wearing confederate flag clothes. The ban comes after a black student was offended by another student wearing clothes with the confederate flag on them. The black student said the flag represented slavery and bondage and was offended that their fellow students would wear this clothing. School

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The Air Force demolished 15 Civil War cannonballs in Charleston. But should they have?

The day after Hurricane Matthew made landfall, someone spotted a few rusted hunks of metal. It was a bunch of 17 Civil War cannonballs, fused together for a century and a half, newly uncovered by a ferocious sea. The passerby called the police, the police called an Air Force bomb squad, they destroyed the bombs.

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