From Jefferson Davis at Valentine Museum to stalled bridge renaming, Virginia faces ongoing debates over history and progress ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit civil rights organization based in Montgomery, Ala., sought to catalog “Confederate place names and other symbols in public places, ...

Filler-Corn’s move to remove the Confederate generals comes a few weeks after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the removal of a different Lee monument — a 21-foot (6-meter) bronze ...

RICHMOND — State Sen. Mamie E. Locke took to her feet, ready to tangle with the freshman Republican who had just called a bill to allow the removal of Confederate monuments "divisive and not ...

Just south of Fredericksburg, a 23-foot-tall pyramid of rough-hewn Virginia granite stands as a monument to the 1862 Confederate victory at the battle fought there. Commissioned in 1897 by the ...

Should the city lose at trial, it can appeal. The case will likely drag on for some time. And where Confederate monuments are concerned, Virginia’s supreme court showed itself to be closely aligned ...

As the nation grappled with the aftermath of the Charleston massacre, the removal of a Confederate monument in Charlottesville, Virginia, became the flashpoint for more violence. In 2017 ...

Lee was finally removed after more than a century of towering over Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy. A statue of the Confederate general Robert E.

Matthew Fontaine Maury, were removed shortly after the Virginia General Assembly passed a law in 2020 allowing localities to decide how to deal with Confederate monuments on public property.

VIRGINIA BEACH — A statue of a Confederate ... protests across the state in 2020 calling for the removal of the Confederate monuments amid nationwide anti-racism protests. In June 2020, city ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Work to relocate Richmond’s final city-owned Confederate monument should start this week after a judge refused a request to delay the removal of the statue of Gen.