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Jason Collins, the NBA’s first openly gay player, married his partner of more than a decade in an outdoor ceremony last month.
Former Nets player, and the first openly gay athlete in the NBA, Jason Collins married his longtime partner, Brunson Green, ...
Although the Memphis Museum of Art is not a memorial in and of itself ... until the racial-justice reckoning of 2020 sparked the toppling of its Jefferson Davis statue and removal of the rest. Prior ...
MEMPHIS — After city officials found a ... which had a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, to a nonprofit group. Immediately afterward after dark, that group brought in a crane ...
The Jefferson Davis memorial that Memphis recently removed is of that vintage. It was dedicated in 1964, the year Congress passed the Civil Rights Act and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was ...
One of the few things Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis agreed upon was the strategic ... freely between Federal-occupied New Orleans and Memphis and its western farmers from shipping produce ...
The denial led the city council to pass legislation allowing it to sell parkland to Memphis ... s monument in December 2017, as well as a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
The denial led the city council to pass legislation allowing it to sell parkland to Memphis ... s monument in December 2017, as well as a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Lee to Jefferson Davis the president of ... law barring the removal of historic monuments from public areas. A judge in Nashville ruled that the city and Memphis Greenspace, the non-profit that ...
The strange saga began on March 20, when the United Daughters of the Confederacy reported the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair had gone missing from a Selma cemetery. District Attorney Michael ...
But the visibility of their monuments often belie the way their ... We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have." Jefferson Davis was a man of many words.
There had been talk in the past about removing the monument. But the killing of ... Nathan Bedford Forrest and Confederate President Jefferson Davis came down hours after the sale in December ...