Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

On every third Monday in January every year Alabama and Mississippi honor slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and ...

Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ... added King to their existing Lee-Jackson Day, which also honored Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson, until it was split up in 2000.

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee Day, ...

America must take a look at the ongoing racial violence and the monuments we build in service or resistance to it.

It is disrespectful to King’s memory and the struggle of the civil rights movement to celebrate him alongside ... and Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, both natives of the state ...