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The Republican-led House of Representatives in Kentucky passes a bill placing authority over the removal or addition of statues to the Capitol building rotunda in the hands of lawmakers. Republican state Representative David Hale denies that there is any connection between the bill and the removal of the Jefferson Davis statue in 2020.

Juneteenth is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time. The anniversary commemorates the ending of slavery in the US, and recalls the celebrations held by Black communities across the States in the Civil War’s immediate aftermath.

The Juneteenth National Independence Day Act is signed into law by President Joe Biden.

After years of community protest, Kentucky's Historic Properties Advisory Commission votes to remove the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the Kentucky State Capitol.

Protests against police brutality and institutionalised, historic racism take place across Kentucky,

George Floyd killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis, MN. His death gives rise to worldwide protests against historic racism and police brutality, and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Breonna Taylor shot and killed by armed police in her home, during a drugs investigation raid in Louisville, KY.

Camp Nelson is designated a National Monument by President Donald J. Trump under the Antiquities Act.

following a lengthy process of debate and legislative process in the aftermath of the Charleston shootings, the city of New Orleans removes four Confederate statues from its public spaces.

Shooting of ten congregants at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a white supremacist. The shooter had previously posted photographs of himself with white supremacist emblems, including the Confederate flag, online. The event sparks national discussion about the place of Confederate monuments and symbolism in US public life.

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