Karen L. Cox on No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

(4/30/21) When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them and protestors taking matters into their own hands. As professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Karen L. Cox describes in her new book No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice, these conflicts have raged well over a century. But never have they been as intense as they are today. Join us for a look at the battle to take down these reminders of our nation’s bloody legacy of slavery in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.