Demonstrators hold Confederate flags near the monument for Confederacy President Jefferson Davis on June 25, 2015, in Richmond, Va., after it was spray-painted with the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter.’ AP Photo/Steve Helber by Alexander N. Taylor, George Mason University Confederate monuments burst into public consciousness in 2015 when a shooting at a historically Black church … Continued

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