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A group of black racist thugs calling itself NFAC (Not F--ing Around Coalition) gathered in Stone Mountain Park, Georgia (outside Atlanta), dressed in all-black paramilitary gear, on July 4th, Independence Day, to protest a Confederate monument, tweak the KKK, intimidate white Americans, and attempt to start a race war. Really. You won't believe what you see!

SHREVEPORT -- More than a year after four monuments to the Confederate era were removed from the New Orleans landscape, a federal judge has cleared the way for removal of another Louisiana Confederate memorial. Wednesday's ruling in the northwest Louisiana city of Shreveport says the Caddo Parish Commission has the authority to remove a monument outside the parish courthouse. U.S. District Judge Robert James dismissed a lawsuit by a chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

A New Orleans school principal has been "removed from campus" after a photo emerged showing him standing at the Robert E. Lee statue in front of a Confederate flag. Crescent Leadership Academy superintendent Tracy Bennett-Joseph confirmed Monday (May 22) that Principal Nicholas Dean was removed from campus. She said the school's management was investigating. "With the recent events in the city it is important that this matter is thoroughly reviewed," she said. Dean said he did go to the monument Thursday evening to take photos as rumors circulated of the statue's imminent removal. Mayor Mitch Landrieu had the statue of...

Vandals damaged the city's monument to Confederate soldiers by spraying black paint over the faces of statues representing four white rebel fighters. The damage was discovered during the weekend at the memorial, which consists of a 56-foot-tall granite pillar surrounded by four metal figures representing the navy, cavalry, infantry and artillery branches of the Confederate military. All are white. "I think the Civil War is still sensitive to a segment of the South," Nancy Perry, the city's museum director, said Tuesday. Police had made no arrests. A metal conservator could begin work to clean up the statues this weekend. The...