A large number of protesters have toppled the controversial “Silent Sam” statue on the campus of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

The US Supreme Court has declined a challenge to the use of a Confederate emblem on the Mississippi flag.

Charlottesville mayor has called for an emergency meeting of state lawmakers to confirm the city's right to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Officials in states and cities across the United States said they would step up efforts to pull Confederate monuments from public spaces.

American protesters have toppled a Confederate monument in Durham, North Carolina, amid growing tensions between human rights activists and white supremacists in the country.

Four Confederate flags were found at the Ebenezer Baptist Church and the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta on Thursday.

Hundreds of activists of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan group have staged a demonstration in front of the South Carolina Statehouse to protest the removal of the controversial Confederate flag.