The Jefferson Davis Monument stood in New Orleans from 1911 – when it was dedicated in a ‘Whites Only’ ceremony – until 11 May 2017. The decision to remove the statue was handed down by the New Orleans City Council in the wake of the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, which was carried out in 2015 by a white supremacist and left nine African Americans dead. Goodbye, Old Glory is a dizzying, challenging and at times disturbing document of the protests leading up to the monument’s removal. Carefully balancing a vérité film style with moments of keen commentary, and peppered with the sounds of New Orleans, the video is at once local and universal, capturing the fractured political landscape in the US and the heft of the tides of history.
A Confederate monument comes down in New Orleans – but not without a fight
Director: Jordan Haro
videoRace and ethnicity
An unsettling, archival history of the world’s largest Confederate monument
11 minutes
videoGlobal history
The American Museum of Natural History grapples with its most controversial piece
16 minutes
videoMusic
The reverence and revelry of a New Orleans jazz funeral procession
2 minutes
videoHuman rights and justice
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29 minutes
videoPolitics and government
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22 minutes
videoLove and friendship
Fighting the tide: a Louisiana bayou couple’s 70 bittersweet years of marriage
13 minutes
videoGlobal history
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18 minutes
videoRace and ethnicity
In 1969, black football players stood against racism in one of the whitest states in the US
15 minutes
videoArt
A massive art installation attempts to put the COVID-19 deaths in perspective
15 minutes