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Georgia Today: Why the Confederate Memorial Carved Into Stone Mountain Is Going Nowhere Soon

Stone Mountain’s massive monument featuring Confederate leaders has long sparked controversy. Now, the Stone Mountain Memorial Association has announced changes to the park it hopes will help tell a more "balanced" story of Georgia's past. The latest Georgia Today podcast with host Steve Fennessy and guest Tyler Estep, a reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, examines the park’s history and what the future of its Confederate memorial may look like.    

A Tuskegee hero and the oldest living Black West Point grad reflect on the US military and its first Black defense secretary

A Tuskegee hero and the oldest living Black West Point grad reflect on the US military and its first Black defense secretary dchoi@businessinsider.com (David Choi) © Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin participates in a ceremonial swearing-in with Vice President Kamala Harris, far right, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 25, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images Secretary Lloyd Austin is the first Black person to lead the entire Defense Department. We have a secretary of defense who can say I ve been there, I ve done that, a Black veteran told Insider.

2 Black veterans reflect on race relations in the US military

Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images Secretary Lloyd Austin is the first Black person to lead the entire Defense Department. We have a secretary of defense who can say I ve been there, I ve done that, a Black veteran told Insider. A Tuskegee airman said it was just amazing how the attitudes in the military have changed. Two celebrated Black veterans who shattered the military s color line heralded the arrival of the country s first African-American defense secretary as an exceptionally qualified officer and a sign of how far the services have progressed from the days of discrimination and segregation they once faced.

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