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Baltimore removed four statues with Confederate ties on Aug. 16 under the cover of darkness, in a five-hour operation ordered by Mayor Catherine Pugh. Merrit Kennedy/NPR hide caption

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Baltimore Took Down Confederate Monuments. Now It Has To Decide What To Do With Them

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Matthew Johnson, the current resident of Wadada's childhood home, gives Wadada his Mother's old bible.

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Charlottesville Officials Find Community's Emotions Are Still Raw

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A statue depicting Confederate Gen. and former Georgia Gov. John Brown Gordon on horseback outside the Georgia Statehouse in Atlanta earlier this month. Gordon was also reputed to be a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. John Bazemore/AP hide caption

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Tourists walk past the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee inside the U.S. Capitol on Aug. 17. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has called for the removal of all Confederate statues from the Capitol building. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption

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After Charlottesville, Democrats Debate How Broadly To Respond

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A man runs from a line of charging police in riot gear in Baltimore. The photo, taken by Devin Allen, is featured in the National Museum of African American History and Culture's newest exhibit, "More Than A Picture." Gift of Devin Allen/Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture hide caption

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In 'More Than A Picture' Exhibit, History Happens Now

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In San Francisco, Local Teens Consider Protesting Right-Wing Marches

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Racial Conflict Draws Boxing Fans To Mayweather-McGregor Fight

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Morning News Brief: Party Unity Tested, Far-Right Weekend Rallies

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Bay Area Police Say They're Prepared For Weekend Alt-Right Rallies

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Attention On Hate Speech Drives Donations To Fight Anti-Semitism

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Dr. William "Lynn" Weaver during a recent visit to StoryCorps in Fayetteville, N.C. StoryCorps hide caption

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'People Helped You, Whether You Knew It Or Not'

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Rabbis Boycott Trump After Charlottesville Remarks

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The past few weeks have revitalized debates across the country about what role Confederate monuments play in commemorating U.S. history. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption

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What Our Monuments (Don't) Teach Us About Remembering The Past

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Chants of "White lives matter!" "You will not replace us!" and "Jews will not replace us!" rang out on Aug. 11 as several hundred white nationalists and supremacists carried torches through the University of Virginia. Evelyn Hockstein/The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption

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