Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
News that will always ask the tough questions Made possible by you.

Moving Confederate Monuments In North Carolina Not Easy

The North Carolina Historical Commission will soon decide whether Gov. Roy Cooper can relocate three Confederate monuments from outside the state Capitol. This effort is the first full test of a 2015 state law that was expressly designed to make moving these monuments nearly impossible.

But as James Morrison (@JCMorrisn) from member station WUNC reports, that 2015 law has some wiggle room for legal interpretation.

Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.