Media Information & Resources

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Press Releases & Media Alerts

• 8/30/23: Public Calls for Resignation of Indicted Stone Mountain Board Member 

• 8/29/23: SMAC Presentation to SMMA and Warner Museums Regarding Proposed “Truth Telling” Exhibit

• 3/29/23: Statement Addressing the 2023 Planned Confederate Memorial Event at Stone Mountain Park

• 4/26/22: Statement Addressing the 2022 Planned Confederate Memorial Event at Stone Mountain Park

• 9/3/21: An Open Letter to Stone Mountain Park’s Next Management

• 9/3/21: “Paint the Hate Away” Event Announcement

• 6/21/21: Video Recording of SMAC Press Conference with Coalition Partners

• 5/24/21: Remarks by Dennis Collard at the Stone Mountain Memorial Association Public Meeting

• 5/20/21: Statement on CEO Bill Stephen’s Proposed Changes to Stone Mountain Park

• 4/21/21: Statement on Governor Kemp’s Appointment of Rev. Abraham Mosley as Stone Mountain Memorial Association Board Chair

• 2/25/21: Stone Mountain Park Unity Bill Supports Stone Mountain Memorial Association’s Plan to Meet the Needs of Georgians in the 21st Century

• 2/3/21: Statement on the 2021 House Bills 237 and 238 Addressing Stone Mountain Park and Confederate Memorials

• 12/16/20: Stone Mountain Memorial Association Plans to Request up to $1,000,000 of Public Taxpayer Funding to Maintain World’s Largest Confederate Memorial

• 11/18/20: Stone Mountain Memorial Association Considers Proposals for a “21st Century Perspective on Stone Mountain Park”

• 11/12/20: Stone Mountain Action Coalition Releases Legal Support For Changes at Country’s Largest Confederate Memorial

• 10/15/20: Stone Mountain Park’s Management Company Departs Citing Concerns Over Frequent Protests and Racial Tension

• 9/29/20: Stone Mountain Action Coalition to Host Prayer For Our Park Gathering on October 6 

• 9/16/20: Stone Mountain Park Board to Discuss Historic Changes to Country’s Largest Confederate Memorial

Stone Mountain Action Coalition in the News

• Southern Poverty Law Center (5/17/24): Georgia ‘Teach-In’ Highlights Effort to Transform Largest Confederate Monument

• WABE (2/16/24): Advocates again push for repeal of law protecting Stone Mountain's status as Confederate memorial

• New York Times (10/27/23): The Most Controversial Statue in America Surrenders to the Furnace

• Associated Press (7/27/23): Civil rights groups condemn ‘Soul Fest’ concerts at Georgia park with giant Confederate carving

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (7/25/23): PBS explores Stone Mountain Park’s Confederate carving for ‘Iconic America’

• Fox 5 News (6/10/23): Day of Action to change Stone Mountain Park

• WSB-TV (6/5/23): Builders say new museum coming to Stone Mountain park will tell the truth about the park

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (5/26/23): Stone Mountain Park relocates Confederate flags ahead of holiday

• WSB-TV (5/9/23): Stone Mountain Park to establish ‘truth-telling museum’ covering its racist past

• 95.5 WSB (4/30/23): Supports and protesters gather for annual Confederate Memorial Day event at Stone Mountain Park

• MEA WorldWide (4/30/23): Supporters celebrate Confederate Memorial Day at Stone Mountain Park despite opposition from activists

• WSB-TV (4/29/23): Supports and protesters gather for annual Confederate Memorial Day event at Stone Mountain Park

• WRDW-TV/WAGT-TV (4/29/23): Protesters express opposition to Confederate memorial service held at Stone Mountain Park

• Daily Mail (4/29/23): Supporters defy opposition to celebrate Confederate Memorial Day in shadow of the huge Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (4/29/23): Confederate heritage group at Stone Mountain faces protesters again

• Fox 5 News (4/29/23): Sons of Confederate Veterans gather again for event at Stone Mountain Park

• Southern Poverty Law Center (4/28/23): SPLC Condemns Celebration of Confederacy at Stone Mountain Park

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (4/27/23): State budget allocates $11M for Stone Mountain museum

• Georgia Public Broadcasting (4/26/23): Stone Mountain prepares for Confederate Memorial Day demonstrations

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (4/16/23): Groups again call for cancellation of Stone Mountain Confederate event

• WSB-TV (4/16/23): Groups urge governor to cancel Confederate Memorial Day event at Stone Mountain Park

• 11 Alive (4/16/23): Confederate Memorial Day event planned at Stone Mountain raises opposition

• Capital B Atlanta (4/17/23): What to Do About Stone Mountain? Black Residents Talk Park’s Racist Past.

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (1/12/23): Atlanta History Center’s first documentary takes on Stone Mountain

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (11/21/22): Progress toward Stone Mountain truth-telling exhibit a ‘positive step’

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (9/6/22): Promised changes to Confederate imagery at Stone Mountain slow coming

• The Hill (5/2/22): Civil rights activists protest Confederate Memorial Day at Georgia’s Stone Mountain

• 11 Alive (4/30/22): Neo-Confederate group met in Stone Mountain by counterprotesters at Confederate Memorial Day observation

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (4/30/22): Confederate heritage group joined by counterprotesters at Stone Mountain

• Fox 5 Atlanta (4/30/22): Southern Poverty Law Center calls for stop to Sons of Confederate Veterans rally at Stone Mountain Park

• WABE (4/29/22): Amid talk of change, Stone Mountain Park allows Confederate commemoration to resume

• Creative Loafing (4/28/22): Stone Mountain Park must ban white nationalists, SPLC says

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (4/27/22): Groups call on Stone Mountain to cancel Confederate event

• Southern Poverty Law Center (4/25/22): ​On Confederate Memorial Day, the Southern Poverty Law Center Celebrates the Ongoing Removal of Symbols of Hate Nationwide

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (4/6/22): DeKalb NAACP decries permit approval for Confederate event at Stone Mountain Park

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (3/31/22): Permit OK’d for Confederate Memorial Day event at Stone Mountain Park

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (10/27/21): Stone Mountain Park seeks pitches for creation of truth-telling exhibit

• Axios Atlanta (10/27/21): New operator selected for Stone Mountain

• WSB-TV (10/26/21): Stone Mountain Memorial Association board chooses finalist to run park

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (10/25/21): Stone Mountain Park board names finalist for new business partner

• Washington Post (10/25/21): Only 1 bidder to run Georgia's Confederate-themed park

• Associated Press (10/25/21): Only 1 bidder to run Georgia’s Confederate-themed park

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (10/1/21): Applauding businesses that boycott Stone Mountain’s Confederate imagery

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (9/20/21): Stone Mountain Park board weighing potential new business partners

• Atlanta Business Chronicle (9/9/21): Stone Mountain Park considering proposals for new management firm

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (8/23/21): Stone Mountain Memorial Association removes carving — from its logo

• Atlanta Business Chronicle (7/22/21): Stone Mountain Park to hire new management firm, as Herschend exits

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (7/16/21): Stone Mountain Park seeks new private business partner

• PBS Books, GPB and POV (7/12/21): Filmmaker Talk: A discussion about the national fight over confederate monuments

• WJBF-TV (6/28/21): Changes possible for Stone Mountain Park in Atlanta

• CBS 46 (6/28/21): New billboard presses for removal of Confederate monument from Georgia capitol lawn

• Southern Poverty Law Center (6/28/21): Anti-Confederate Billboard Presses for Removal of Confederate Monument from Georgia Capitol Lawn

• WSB-TV (6/21/21): Story on Stone Mountain Memorial Association Meeting and SMAC’s Calls for Change

• WABE (6/21/21): Stone Mountain Board Faces Social, Economic Pressure To Change Park’s Image

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (6/21/21): Activists blast slow-moving changes at Stone Mountain Park

• The World (6/18/21): Stone Mountain — home to the largest Confederate monument in the US — is celebrating its first Juneteenth

• CNN (6/18/21): A Georgia town is celebrating Juneteenth for the first time in the shadow America's largest Confederate monument

• WSB-TV (6/9/21): Meeting gets heated over Stone Mountain Juneteenth celebration

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (6/9/21): Tensions flare over Stone Mountain group’s exclusion from Juneteenth event

• Tucker Observer (6/8/21): Vendor drama threatens to overshadow Stone Mountain’s Juneteenth Celebration

• CNN (5/30/21): Changes are coming to the nation's largest Confederate monument. Are they enough?

• Georgia Public Broadcasting (5/28/21): Georgia Today: Why the Confederate Memorial Carved Into Stone Mountain Is Going Nowhere Soon

• Washington Post (5/26/21): Georgia park wants to ‘tell the truth’ about world’s largest Confederate monument. Others want it gone.

• New York Times (5/25/21): Giant Confederate Monument Will Remain at Revamped Stone Mountain

• Georgia Public Broadcasting (5/25/21): Stone Mountain To Downplay Confederate Symbols Without Removing Carving

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (5/24/21): Stone Mountain Park board approves truth-telling exhibit, moving flags

• Al Jazeera (5/14/21): US park celebrating the pro-slavery Confederacy faces a reckoning

• Smithsonian Magazine (4/28/21): Georgia Weighs Changes to Stone Mountain Park, a ‘Shrine to White Supremacy’

• Georgia Public Broadcasting (4/27/21): Stone Mountain Confederate Carving Exhibit, Flag Relocation Plans Pitched

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (4/26/21): Stone Mountain Park CEO: ‘Tell the truth’ about carving, move flags

• WSB-TV (4/26/21): Changes could be coming to Stone Mountain Park including renaming lake, removing Confederate flags

• 11 Alive (4/26/21): Changes may be coming for Stone Mountain Park

• WABE (4/26/21): Proposed Changes To Stone Mountain Park Released Amid Financial, Societal Pressure

• Associated Press (4/26/21): Georgia park with giant Confederate carving proposes changes

• On Common Ground News (4/26/21): Stone Mountain Park to undergo transformation, unveils plan to consolidate Confederate monuments

• WABE (4/22/21): Athens Pastor Appointed As 1st Black Chair Of Stone Mountain Park’s Board

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (4/21/21): Kemp taps first Black chairman of Stone Mountain Memorial Association

• Southern Poverty Law Center (4/19/21): Stone Mountain: Monument’s racist history must be acknowledged for community to heal

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (2/12/21): Stone Mountain Park denies permit for Confederate Memorial Day service

• Project Q Atlanta (2/26/21): LGBTQ Atlantans push to ‘free Stone Mountain from the Confederacy’

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (2/3/21): New bills target Stone Mountain, Confederate monuments across Georgia

• CBS 46 (2/3/21): New bill calls for removal of confederate memorials in Georgia

• Fox 5 Atlanta (2/3/21): Georgia lawmakers propose dueling Stone Mountain bills

• WSB-TV (2/3/21): New bills proposed for removal of Confederate monuments from Georgia public property

• WABE (2/3/21): Georgia Democrats Make New Push To Remove Confederate Symbols

• Georgia Public Broadcasting (2/3/21): Lawmakers Brief: Bills Aim To Prohibit Confederate Monuments In Georgia

• The Champion (2/3/21): Georgia House bill focuses on removal of Confederate symbols from Stone Mountain Park

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (1/15/21): Stone Mountain Park official: Confederate flags protected by law

• WSB-TV (11/17/20): Stone Mountain Park association says it’ll listen to all proposals regarding Confederate imagery

• WABE (11/17/20): Stone Mountain Board of Directors Says It Will Weigh Changes, But Not Just Yet

• Associated Press (11/16/20): Stone Mountain group to mull changes, looking to lawmakers

• Georgia Recorder (11/16/20): Stone Mountain Park’s overseers to weigh change to Confederate tributes

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (11/16/20): Panel will weigh how to ‘bring Stone Mountain Park into 21st century’

• WSB-TV (10/7/20): Can Stone Mountain Park survive COVID-19 and Confederate controversy?

• Georgia Public Broadcasting (10/7/20): Group Prays For State To Fade Out Confederate Mark On Stone Mountain

• National Geographic (10/7/20): What role do tourists play in the future of Confederate monuments?

• Associated Press (10/6/20): Group seeks changes at Georgia park honoring Confederacy

• WABE (10/6/20): Group Prays For Change At Stone Mountain As Board Postpones Meeting Again

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (10/6/20): ‘We are here to endure’: Group prays for changes at Stone Mountain

• Georgia Recorder (10/6/20): Stone Mountain’s Confederate symbol row simmers after summer protests

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (10/2/20): Stone Mountain Memorial Association cancels much-anticipated meeting

• WSB-TV (9/15/20): Group pushes for changes regarding Confederate imagery at Stone Mountain Park

• ABC News (9/15/20): Group pushes changes to Confederate imagery at Georgia park

• WABE (9/14/20): New Group Urges Changes At Stone Mountain Park – Some Immediate, Others Long Term

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (9/14/20): Group pitches big changes to Stone Mountain Park's Confederate imagery

• Fox 5 Atlanta (8/30/20): The Georgia Gang segment with with former Atlanta City Council President Cathy Woolard

• WSB-TV (8/24/20): Meeting about revamping Stone Mountain's image gets heated

• Atlanta Journal Constitution (8/24/20): Stone Mountain Memorial Association considers additions to park