Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility

Texas Governor Vows to Replace Democrats Absent at Monday Redistricting Vote

6 hours ago

US Links $1.9 Billion in State Disaster Funds to Israel Boycott Stance

8 hours ago

More Than 3,000 Boeing Fighter Jet Workers Go on Strike After Rejecting Contract Offer

8 hours ago

Trump Says He Will ‘Substantially’ Raise Tariffs on India Over Russian Oil Purchases

9 hours ago

More Gazans Die Seeking Aid and From Hunger, as Burial Shrouds in Short Supply

9 hours ago

Fresno Man Who Drowned in Kings River Identified

9 hours ago

White House Backs Away From IVF Coverage Mandate Despite Trump’s Campaign Pledge, Washington Post Reports

1 day ago

‘Freedom Week’: California Gun Owners Rush to Buy Ammo After Court Ruling

3 days ago
Statue of Confederate General Albert Pike to Be Reinstalled in Washington
Reuters logo
By Reuters
Published 2 hours ago on
August 4, 2025

Messages of protest remain after protesters toppled the statue of Albert Pike, amid a series of racial inequality protests, at the Brigadier General Albert Pike Statue site near Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 7, 2020. (Reuters File)

Share

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...

WASHINGTON — A statue of Confederate General Albert Pike, which was overturned in 2020 during the “Black Lives Matter” protests after George Floyd’s murder, will be reinstalled in Washington, the National Park Service said on Monday.

“The National Park Service announced today that it will restore and reinstall the bronze statue of Albert Pike, which was toppled and vandalized during riots in June 2020,” it said in a statement.

The U.S. saw nationwide protests in 2020 following the killing of Floyd, a Black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for over eight minutes.

The National Park Service said reinstalling the statue was in line with recent executive orders signed by President Donald Trump, who has been a strident critic of renaming or removing Confederate statues and monuments.

An executive order that Trump signed in late March titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” suggested that Trump sought to purge elements of what conservatives view as a revisionist history of the United States that places systemic racism at the heart of its narrative.

Rights advocates say such steps undermine the acknowledgment of critical phases of American history.

Earlier this year, Trump restored two U.S. Army bases to their former names of Fort Benning and Fort Bragg despite a federal law that prohibits honoring generals who fought for the South during the Civil War. The Trump administration says the names honor different individuals, all former soldiers.

In 2017 during his first term, Trump defended white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, who protested the city’s decision to remove a statue of the Confederate commander Robert E. Lee. At the time, Trump said there were “very fine people of both sides” of the fight, sparking widespread outrage.

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Leslie Adler)

RELATED TOPICS:

DON'T MISS

What Are Fresno Real Estate Experts Predicting for 2025 and Beyond?

DON'T MISS

First California EV Mandates Hit Automakers This Year. Most Are Not Even Close

DON'T MISS

House Democrats Renew Effort Calling for Palestinian Statehood

DON'T MISS

US DOJ to Open Grand Jury Probe Into Obama Officials, Source Says

DON'T MISS

State Gives Adventist Health OK for $1B in Bonds. Valley Children’s Gets $11M Grant

DON'T MISS

Fresno Man Pleads Guilty in $30 Million Fraud Scheme

DON'T MISS

Fresno County Traffic Stop Leads to Prison Sentence for Mexican National in Fentanyl Case

DON'T MISS

Statue of Confederate General Albert Pike to Be Reinstalled in Washington

DON'T MISS

Record Number of Senate Democrats Vote to Block Israel Weapons Sales

DON'T MISS

Fresno County House Fire Displaces Two Adults and Injures Dog

DON'T MISS

Should Lyft and Uber Charge More if Your Phone Battery Is Low? California May Ban That

DON'T MISS

US Government Restricts Sports Visas for Transgender Women

UP NEXT

US DOJ to Open Grand Jury Probe Into Obama Officials, Source Says

UP NEXT

State Gives Adventist Health OK for $1B in Bonds. Valley Children’s Gets $11M Grant

UP NEXT

Fresno Man Pleads Guilty in $30 Million Fraud Scheme

UP NEXT

Fresno County Traffic Stop Leads to Prison Sentence for Mexican National in Fentanyl Case

UP NEXT

Statue of Confederate General Albert Pike to Be Reinstalled in Washington

UP NEXT

Record Number of Senate Democrats Vote to Block Israel Weapons Sales

UP NEXT

Should Lyft and Uber Charge More if Your Phone Battery Is Low? California May Ban That

UP NEXT

US Government Restricts Sports Visas for Transgender Women

UP NEXT

Tulare County Inmate Dies After Collapsing at Jail

UP NEXT

Fresno Police Investigating Fatal Shooting of 70-Year-Old Man

Fresno Man Pleads Guilty in $30 Million Fraud Scheme

1 hour ago

Fresno County Traffic Stop Leads to Prison Sentence for Mexican National in Fentanyl Case

1 hour ago

Statue of Confederate General Albert Pike to Be Reinstalled in Washington

2 hours ago

Record Number of Senate Democrats Vote to Block Israel Weapons Sales

3 hours ago

Fresno County House Fire Displaces Two Adults and Injures Dog

3 hours ago

Should Lyft and Uber Charge More if Your Phone Battery Is Low? California May Ban That

4 hours ago

US Government Restricts Sports Visas for Transgender Women

4 hours ago

Tulare County Inmate Dies After Collapsing at Jail

6 hours ago

Fresno Police Investigating Fatal Shooting of 70-Year-Old Man

6 hours ago

Israel to Decide Next Steps in Gaza After Ceasefire Talks Collapse

6 hours ago

House Democrats Renew Effort Calling for Palestinian Statehood

More than a dozen House Democrats have signed a draft letter urging the Trump administration to recognize a Palestinian state, and the leade...

11 minutes ago

A Palestinian flag, center, flies at a pro-Palestinian encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., April 22, 2024. More than a dozen House Democrats have signed a draft letter urging the Trump administration to recognize a Palestinian state, and the leader of the effort said on Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, that he planned to introduce a resolution to codify the push. (Sophie Park/The New York Times)
12 minutes ago

House Democrats Renew Effort Calling for Palestinian Statehood

Former U.S. President Barack Obama attends the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Reuters File)
20 minutes ago

US DOJ to Open Grand Jury Probe Into Obama Officials, Source Says

Adventist Health and Valley Children's getting clearance for financing
54 minutes ago

State Gives Adventist Health OK for $1B in Bonds. Valley Children’s Gets $11M Grant

The crest of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is seen at their headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 10, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File photo
1 hour ago

Fresno Man Pleads Guilty in $30 Million Fraud Scheme

Miguel Obed Romero Reyes was sentenced to over four years in prison after a Fresno County traffic stop uncovered more than 200,000 fentanyl pills in his vehicle. (DOJ)
1 hour ago

Fresno County Traffic Stop Leads to Prison Sentence for Mexican National in Fentanyl Case

Messages of protest remain after protesters toppled the statue of Albert Pike, amid a series of racial inequality protests, at the Brigadier General Albert Pike Statue site near Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 7, 2020. (Reuters File)
2 hours ago

Statue of Confederate General Albert Pike to Be Reinstalled in Washington

A general view shows the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., January 19, 2025. (Reuters File)
3 hours ago

Record Number of Senate Democrats Vote to Block Israel Weapons Sales

A house fire south of Selma on Monday, August 4, 2025, morning displaced two adults and injured a dog, with the cause under investigation. (CalFire)
3 hours ago

Fresno County House Fire Displaces Two Adults and Injures Dog

Help continue the work that gets you the news that matters most.

Search

Send this to a friend