A car bombing outside the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville on July 20, 2004 left one man dead and and federal investigators facing a strange mystery.
The lone victim of the blast, who had been catapulted from the mangled SUV and whose charred license was found near the wreckage, was identified as 43-year-old William Young.
A multiracial lawsuit demanding the removal of a Confederate monument in Iredell County, North Carolina, offers a historic family twist. One of the residents supporting the move is a descendant of Robert E. Lee. The Rev. Robert Wright "Rob" Lee IV of Statesville, a fourth great-nephew of the Confederacy's commanding general, is among a group of residents and organizations calling on Iredell .
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The sun rises behind the Robert E. Lee statue, where streets are closed ahead of expected protests in Richmond, Virginia on January 17, 2021. - Security officials have warned that armed pro-Trump extremists, possibly carrying explosives, pose a threat to Washington as well as state capitals over the coming week.
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That we even have to debate whether a statue of Robert E. Lee should exist tells us how backwards many people in America are. Of course, four years of Donald Trump and his racism certainly didn’t help.
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If people are willing to travel to Washington, D.C., to take down the government, they certainly aren’t going to stand by and let one of the symbols of their hate be taken down.