A North Carolina law protects Confederate monuments. Will cities remove them anyway?
RALEIGH — Leaders of some North Carolina cities have voted to remove or relocate Confederate monuments, but a state law passed five years ago could stand in their way.State-owned monuments “may not be removed, relocated, or altered in any way without the approval of the North Carolina Historical Commission,” according to the law that won approval from then-Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican, in 2015.The decision, which came a month after Dylann Roof killed nine Black […]
