A statue featuring a Confederate soldier at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has been vandalized.
In Mississippi, the Confederate battle emblem is sewn right into the state flag. The history and pain of those stars and bars still runs deep in the Magnolia State.
It's as though “there are people telling you ‘you do not belong’ ” on campus, a recent black graduate of Louisiana State University said.
In the wake of the recent massacre in Charleston, intense public backlash against Confederate symbols has ensued — and the debate is roaring in small rural communities.
