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State commission delays action on Nathan Bedford Forrest bust Click here for important updates to our privacy policy. Trump admin targets Vanderbilt University over DEI, 'race-exclusionary' practices ...
A bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general, ... the governor's office had to wait 120 days to take action after the Historical Commission's March vote approving the bust's relocation.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Conversation must turn to action say some, while others are being more cautious. They are two different thoughts about changing the state’s “Nathan Bedford Forrest ...
Group that could take action on Nathan Bedford Forrest bust yet to meet despite protests, calls for context. Joel Ebert. The Tennessean.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After more than two decades, the controversial Nathan Bedford Forrest statue along Interstate 65 has been removed. This comes one year after Bill Dorris — the statue owner ...
In a July 6, 2015 blog article published on the Huffington Post titled, “Nathan Bedford Forrest vs. the Ku Klux Klan,” Tures wrote, “But even this Forrest critic can admit that the Klan ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — State lawmakers grappled Tuesday with a couple of controversies involving Nathan Bedford Forrest, a man born almost 199 years ago. One issue is the statue of the slave-trader ...
Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest died in 1877, yet the slave trader and Klan leader still haunts the American landscape. There’s a statue of him overlooking a cemetery in Rome, Ga ...
The first park named after Nathan Bedford Forrest I ever encountered was in Memphis, Tennessee. Upon realizing where the park’s name came from, I looked around incredulously, feeling like ...
Nathan Bedford Forrest bust back in Alabama cemetery Published: May. 26, 2015, 2:05 p.m. A bust from the monument honoring Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest in Selma, Ala., is shown on April ...
On Monday, a group of protesters went down to the Capitol and complained loudly about the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest that sits there. At one point, a protester threw his jacket over Forrest ...