Fort Bragg has shed its Confederate namesake to become Fort Liberty in a ceremony that some veterans said was a small but important step in making the United States Army more welcoming to current and prospective Black service members.The change on Friday was part of a broad US Department of Defense initiative, motivated by the 2020 George Floyd racial justice protests, to rename military installations that had been named after Confederate soldiers.The prevalence of statues and sites honouring members of the Confederacy, many of whom were slaveholders, has remained a persistent and controversial issue in the US as discussions about the country’s legacy of racism continue.
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