State Rep. Jarvis Johnson, a Houston Democrat, announced on Wednesday morning a new bill, House Bill 51, that aims to abolish Confederate Heroes Day as an official Texas state holiday. The ...

Texas: “Confederate Heroes Day” is a partial holiday Jan. 19 each year for Texas state employees, allowing state employees to take a paid day off, though state offices still remain open.

and Confederate holidays have been quietly removed, renamed, or dropped from "paid day off" status around the country. The effort picked up steam after the murder of George Floyd and the rise in ...

But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general. The two states recognize King and Lee on the third Monday in January. Their state governments ...

In a Jan. 29 executive order, President Donald Trump revived a plan from his first term to construct a national garden honoring American heroes ahead of the United States' 250th anniversary next year.

Confederate Memorial Day was started in Georgia in April 1866 to commemorate the deaths of Confederate soldiers on the first anniversary of the day that Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnson surrendered ...