NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo has signed into New York law a bill that immediately makes "selling or displaying" the Confederate flag against the law. How such a law could possibly be in accord with the free speech provision of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, is not explained.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- A United Daughters of the Confederacy lawsuit petitioning the court for a return of a Confederate soldier statue to downtown Winston-Salem was dismissed by a Superior Court judge on a 2-1 ruling.
RICHMOND, Va. -- The Richmond City Council has passed an ordinance renaming the Jefferson Davis Highway, another is a long line of anti-Confederate actions in what was once the national capital of the Confederate States of America.
JACKSON, Miss. -- Schools in Jackson named in honor of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and John Logan Power, will be renamed, it was announced by the Board of Trustees for Jackson Public Schools.
RICHMOND, Va. -- The Department of Veterans Affairs said it has no plans to rename the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. McGuire was Confederate General Stonewall Jackson's surgeon who amputated the general's mortal wounding at the Battle of Chancellorsville and treated him up to the time of his death from pneumonia two weeks later.
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