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Juneteenth 2021: A time for celebration amid activism in Alabama town
By Esther Schrader When the eve of Juneteenth comes to the plaza outside the county courthouse in Florence, Alabama, this year, Camille Bennett and her committed group of social justice activists will be dancing. This plaza may seem an unlikely place for celebration, overshadowed as it is by a 20-foot-tall Confederate monument erected at the height of the Jim Crow era. But dancing is joy, and joy is power, says Bennett. That’s why, as the weekend marking the end of slavery in
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Death threats and the KKK: Inside a Black Alabaman’s fight to remove a Confederate statue
By Tim Reid May 27 (Reuters) - The second paragraph contains language that may offend some readers. Ever since Camille Bennett started her campaign to relocate a Confederate statue from outside the county courthouse in her hometown of Florence, Alabama, she has seen it all: threats, violent online messages and intimidation attempts. There was the suggestion from a white pastor that somebody wire her mouth shut; then there was the time a white motorcyclist sped towards her and
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Confederate Monument Protests Gain Momentum in Small Alabama Town
Black activist group Project Say Something has tried to have the monument to racism removed since 2017. By Abby Clark & Trevor Kiddy Published August 15, 2020 Protesters chant during an Occupy Downtown event in downtown Florence, Alabama, on July 16, 2020. Occupy Downtown protest have become a weekly occurrence. This year cities across the nation erupted in outrage as the stories of police brutality garnered national attention. News coverage of nationwide demonstrations forms
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Project Say Something sends open letter to City of Florence regarding Confederate monument
by: Jeremy Jackson Posted: Aug 12, 2020 / 10:02 AM CDT Updated: Aug 12, 2020 / 10:02 AM CDT This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FLORENCE, Ala. — Shoals racial justice group, Project Say Something wrote an open letter to the City of Florence and Mayor Steve Holt on Tuesday. The letter comes after numerous protests calling for the removal of the Confederate mo
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Social justice group demands apology from Alabama senator for ‘racist’ remarks
ByJonece Starr Dunigan | jdunigan@reckonmedia.com https://www.al.com/news/2020/06/social-justice-group-demands-apology-from-alabama-senator-for-racist-remarks.html June 11, 2020 A social justice nonprofit is demanding a public apology from an Alabama lawmaker who they say made racist remarks during a commission meeting earlier this week. In an open letter emailed to Sen. Tim Melson, R-Florence, on Wednesday, Project Say Something states Melson made the comments during a Laude
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