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RICHMOND, Va. -- Just a little over a month ago, the area around Richmond's iconic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was as quiet and sedate as the statue itself. But since the May 25 ...
Artist Dustin Klein projects an image of sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois onto the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, June 18. REUTERS/Julia Rendleman [6/8] ...
FILE - This Tuesday, June 2, 2020 file photo shows a large group of protesters gather around the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue near downtown in Richmond, Va ...
The statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Ave. in Richmond VA, Wednesday, June 3, 2020. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has indicated that he wanted the statue removed from the historic street ...
RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia judge has dissolved one injunction but imposed another preventing Virginia's governor from removing an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The new 90 ...
Judge William R. Marchant of the Richmond Circuit Court prevented an effort to pull down the statue for 90 days while a lawsuit over whether doing so would violate a 19th century agreement is ...
Protesters climb on the base of the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue on June 6, 2020 in Richmond, Virginia amid continued protests over the death of George Floyd in ...
“They replaced the Robert E. Lee statue in New Orleans with this,” reads the caption on the post. “This is diabolical.” It was shared 50 times in two days.
RICHMOND, Va.—Richmond’s massive statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee will stay in place in the former capital of the Confederacy at least a while longer while a lawsuit over the governor’s plans to ...
As the battle over the future of the Richmond Robert E. Lee statue continues to play out in court, protesters against the memorial to the Confederate leader are planning a candlelight vigil Friday ...
Vandals struck the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, center, outside Duke Chapel on Duke University’s West Campus in mid-August 2017. The statue was later removed.