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FACT CHECK: Viral Post Claims To Show Military Memorials Damaged During George Floyd Protests Vietnam Veterans

FACT CHECK: Viral Post Claims To Show Military Memorials Damaged During George Floyd Protests

A viral Facebook post shared more than 2,200 times claims the two pictures show military memorials damaged during George Floyd protests. Verdict: False The images, which predate 2020, come from two separate incidents that were unrelated to the recent protests. Fact Check:   Protests and riots have taken place across the…
bubmag
June 15, 2020
Historical figures reassessed around globe as statues come down Vietnam Veterans

Historical figures reassessed around globe as statues come down

The rapidly unfolding movement to pull down Confederate monuments around the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of police has extended to statues of slave traders, imperialists, conquerors and explorers around the world, including Christopher Columbus, Cecil Rhodes and Belgium’s King Leopold II. Protests and,…
bubmag
June 12, 2020
Historical figures reassessed around globe after George Floyd’s death Vietnam Veterans

Historical figures reassessed around globe after George Floyd’s death

Workers removed a controversial statue of Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton from Civic Square in Hamilton, New Zealand.MICHAEL BRADLEY/AFP via Getty ImagesAt the University of Oxford, protesters have stepped up their longtime push to remove a statue of Rhodes, the Victorian imperialist who served as prime minister of the Cape…
bubmag
June 12, 2020
Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’ may be flawed, but it arrives at a time when it feels urgent Vietnam Veterans

Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’ may be flawed, but it arrives at a time when it feels urgent

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June 10, 2020