Powerful storm. Around here the accuweather seesaw is sliding back the other way from summer back to fall, plus were tracking storms that are strong right now. And doing that and standing outside right now dave murphy has more on accuweather and karen rogers is taking a look at your traffic. Good morning. Came out here and it wasnt raining. Now the rain is starting and the umbrella is about 20 feet over there. Oh, well. As we take a look at Storm Tracker6 live double scan, we have some heavy rain and some thunderstorms down in south jersey in cape may county, Atlantic County and a little bit of that in Camden County right now as well. And you can see the movement as all of this is pushing up toward the northeast. That additional rain to the north and west appears to be missing the area. Lots of clouds. Once the rain gets finished well still have cloudy skies for the most part and more pockets of rain possible straight into the evening. 69 degrees in philadelphia, 66 allentown, 73 in ca
America s Racial Awakening Forces Virginia Military Institute to Confront Its Past—and Future
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America s Racial Awakening Forces Virginia Military Institute To Confront Its Past And Future Time 2 days ago Molly Ball/Lexington, Va. © Jared Soares for TIME Civil War cannons outside the barracks that house Virginia Military Institute’s cadets in Lexington, Va. on May 6, 2021.
It was a cold morning last December when they finally took Stonewall Jackson down. No ceremony was held, no protesters gathered; snowflakes swirled in the air. A crane silently hoisted the enormous bronze Confederate general from his perch of 108 years.
To many graduates of the Virginia Military Institute, that was no way to treat a hero. In a Facebook group for the “VMI Spirit,” alumni mourned the “erasing” of their cherished history. One called it “ethnic cleansing.” Several vowed to write the school out of their wills. “Shame on you low-life PsOS that were involved in this decision,” another man wrote. “May you be haunted nightly, by the Sons and Daughters
robert e. lee and stonewall jackson monument, which took us about 2 1/2 hours to remove. we saw the mayor of phoenix tonight deliver a message to the president. the president announced he wants to go to phoenix next week to have a big rally. the mayor of phoenix delivered a message to the president saying please don t come. if president trump wanted to come to baltimore next week for a rally, what would you say to him? well, you know, i think that america is in need of peace, love, respect of each other. i m not concerned about whether the president comes to baltimore. i m more concerned about what we need to do for our city. we re right in the middle of just about ending the preparation to enter into a consent decree. so we need federal assistance. i would certainly remind him of that. we have infrastructure needs like most urban cities do. and i m working with my congressional delegation around those kinds of things. and as someone asked me earlier today, had i listened to the pr
baltimore. no traffic problems, no rallies, no confrontations. we just got it done. and one of the statues was to chief justice taney, one of the few statues in america to supreme court justices, and he is the author of what everyone agrees is the worst supreme court opinion in history, the dred scott decision which not only affirmed but strengthened the constitutionality of slavery. that was one that was surprising. that was actually the first one we removed. i was surprised that existed. i only learned of the existence of it when you removed it. you know, i don t even know if people knew what that statue was about. to know it was right there in mount vernon, just a beautiful part of our city. i want you to know it took us about 45 minutes to remove that one. that one was one of the fastest ones to remove. the most difficult one was the robert e. lee and stonewall jackson monument, which took us
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