US states celebrate Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday honoring Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

CHARLESTON — In 2020, Marion Square said goodbye to one famous Southern leader and enslaver, John C. Calhoun. On Dec. 11, the downtown park welcomed another, Gen. Robert E. Lee. Five years after ...

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...

Dec. 17 (UPI) --A statue of Barbara Rose Johns, a Black teenage girl who protested segregation, has been unveiled at the U.S. Capitol, four years after Virginia selected the civil rights icon to ...

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...

A controversial 2.4-ton road marker honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee appeared last week without hoopla at Marion Square on King Street, surprising some history buffs around Charleston. “It ...

A statue honoring Civil Rights activist Barbara Rose Johns will be unveiled Tuesday on Capitol Hill, taking the spot upon which a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once stood. The statue will ...

The landmark Supreme Court case “Brown v. Board of Education,” in 1954, declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional — a watershed moment in the fight for educational ...

For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the Pentagon found a use for him. For more than a century, this Black soldier from ...