https://freerepublic.com/tag/blackhistorymuseum/ en-us Thu, 26 Oct 2023 23:40:54 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4192570/posts It was a choice to melt down Robert E. Lee. But it would have been a choice to keep him intact, too. So the statue of the Confederate general that once stood in Charlottesville — the one that prompted the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017 — was now being cut into fragments and dropped into a furnace, dissolving into a sludge of glowing bronze. Six years ago, groups with ties to the Confederacy had sued to stop the monument from being taken down. Torch-bearing white nationalists descended on the Virginia college town to protest its removal, and one... Washington Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4192570/posts#comment Thu, 26 Oct 2023 23:40:54 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3476971/posts Justice Clarence Thomas, the second black man to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, is practically absent from the new National Museum of African American History and Culture. The Daily Caller https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3476971/posts#comment Wed, 5 Oct 2016 16:37:26 GMT