Newsweek: One Less Jefferson Davis

Photo by By Sarah Stierch

His name has been removed from an arch at a fort where slaves were first brought to the U.S.

"Davis is part of one atrocious chapter of the history of the United States. His name and image no longer belong in the public space. As the country commemorates the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Fort Monroe, it is not too late to start reckoning with the painful past of slavery and its legacies of racism and white supremacy."

See the full opinion column HERE.