people in Decatur focused their energy and vandalism on the Confederate obelisk outside the Historic DeKalb Courthouse. About half of DeKalb County’s 764,000 residents identify as Black or ...

As a large crane pulled down the obelisk just before midnight Thursday, people chanted, “Take it down! Take it down!” Others applauded. “The Confederate obelisk has become an increasingly ...

With hundreds of people watching as midnight approached, a crane moved in and took down a Confederate monument that stood in the town square of an Atlanta suburb since 1908. The stone obelisk was ...

The tall obelisk was taken down nearly three years after the June 9, 2020, removal of the bronze statue of a Confederate soldier at the top of the monument. The soldier statue was removed ...

Other parts of the cemetery were damaged too — the Confederate Obelisk, Confederate tombstones and one of the new contextual historical markers. As for the Lion, the City Council voted in August ...

However, in a slightly dissonant salute to the monument’s original purpose, the granite pedestal supporting the obelisk would remain the same. It would still say “Our Confederate Dead,” and ...