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Judge weighs removal of Confederate memorial at Arlington Cemetery
A commission recommended the memorial's removal last year after reviewing names of military bases commemorating Confederate leaders.
Heated exchanges and a flood of suggestions for the Confederate renaming commission
The commission has received 27,000 suggestions.
Here’s your chance to help rename Army posts and Navy ships honoring the Confederacy
The public is invited to submit their ideas for renaming 10 Army posts and two Navy ships.
Pentagon’s ban on Pride, and nearly all other, flags is staying
After a review, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin decided not to grant a June exception for the LGBTQ+ flag.
There are 9 Confederate memorials among the military academies, but their fate is unknown
The memorials include nods to Confederates Gen. Robert E. Lee and Adm. Franklin Buchanan.
Fort Belvoir, cruiser Antietam under consideration for renaming by DoD commission
The commission will be looking at places and things named to honor the Confederacy in general.
Joint Chiefs chairman urges greater racial diversity in the military
Gen. Mark Milley told a Howard University ROTC commissioning ceremony that diversity is an important strength of the military but is still inadequate.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press and Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
Military must reject “slavery and treason” of Confederate base names, commissioner warns
The former head of the history department at the U.S. Military Academy called the Confederate flag a symbol of "treason" in a recent interview.
Panelists selected, now work on renaming military sites honoring Confederate leaders will begin
Defense Department officials and congressional leaders on Friday named the eight-person panel charged with reviewing and replacing the names.
Pentagon chief purges defense boards; Trump loyalists out
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered hundreds of Pentagon advisory board members to resign this month as part of a broad review of the panels, essentially purging several dozen last-minute appointments under the Trump administration.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
Excerpt from ‘A Shot in the Moonlight’ by Ben Montgomery
"A Shot in the Moonlight" by Ben Montgomery is the true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow South.
By Ben Montgomery