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Richmond removes its last remaining Confederate statue - Yahoo

Workers lifted a bronze statue of Confederate General A.P. Hill from its base and placed it on a truck. Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney tweeted ...

City of Richmond Begins Taking Down Confederate Monuments

Another statue on the city's Monument Avenue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has been ordered taken down by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, but ...

Richmond's Confederate Monuments Officially Removed By City ...

Monday's vote to remove all of Richmond's Confederate monuments is a direct response to more than two months of anti-racist and anti-police ...

Guardian Reports on Richmond's Confederate Statue Graveyard ...

Richmond, Virginia, removed likenesses of Confederate generals after 2020's protests. Now they're in a statue graveyard. In an open-air ...

What should happen to Richmond's removed confederate statues ...

What should happen to Richmond's removed confederate statues? Learn how you can vote here ... RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Black History Museum and ...

UPDATED: Richmond judge bars removal of lone remaining ...

... taking down any more Confederate statues in the city for 60 days ... City leaders and protesters condemned the graffiti as evidence of the racism ...

Virginia Tears Down Richmond's Robert E. Lee Statue, The Largest ...

Virginia Tears Down Richmond's Robert E. Lee Statue, The Largest Confederate Monument In The U.S. ... I cover breaking news. ... This article is ...

More Confederate statues being removed in Richmond - WSET

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Work crews were back at work Thursday removing Confederate monuments from Virginia's capital city, a process that began ...

Last Confederate Monument To Be Removed In Richmond, VA

The city of Richmond — the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War — has removed its last public Confederate statue.

Virginia Set to Announce Removal of Richmond's Robert E. Lee Statue

Some see Confederate memorials as shameful and racist tributes to slavery and the Confederacy, while others say their removal amounts to an ...

Jefferson Davis Statue Torn Down In Richmond, Virginia

Protesters tore down a statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday — the latest in a growing list of ...

Kehinde Wiley's Anti-Confederate Memorial | The New Yorker

Kriston Capps on Kehinde Wiley's new statue, “Rumors of War,” an anti-Confederate memorial recently installed in Richmond, Virginia.

Richmond's Statues of Limitation - GEN

History couldn't wait. Following George Floyd's killing on May 25, protesters toppled the statues of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on ...

Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia To Be Removed

Protestors toppled a statue of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States and plantation owner, in July 2020. Soon after all other ...

Looking back: Stonewall Jackson statue removed from Richmond's ...

A year ago today, the City of Richmond began removing its Confederate monuments, starting with Stonewall Jackson on Monument Avenue.

Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee! - UVA Press

As a statue of Robert E. Lee was lowered to the ground in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday, perhaps the most contested Confederate monument had finally met its ...

Statues of Confederate Generals Have Come Down. What Should ...

Statues of Confederate Generals Have Come Down. What Should Take Their Place? · The Mellon Foundation has launched a $250 million nationwide ...

Protesters topple Jefferson Davis statue in Virginia capital - POLITICO

RICHMOND, Va. — Protesters pulled down a century-old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the former capital of the ...

Richmond's Last Confederate Statue Comes Down - Hyperallergic

Hill's statue on December 12 marks the end of the city's two-year push to take down public memorials of Confederate history. “Richmond was home ...