Confederate statues

The Supreme Court of Virginia is set to hear arguments in legal challenges to Gov. Ralph Northam’s plan to take down a 131-year-old statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Virginia’s highest court has ruled that the city of Charlottesville can take down two statues of Confederate generals, including one of Robert E

At least 160 Confederate symbols were taken down or moved from public spaces in 2020.

A panel of Virginia lawmakers have advanced a bill to remove a statue of a segregationist from the state Capitol grounds.

A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E

Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder reports the statue of a 16-year-old girl who led a walkout in 1951 to protest students’ substandard segregated school facilities will replace Robert E. Lee in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

A state panel has recommended that a statue of civil rights hero Barbara Johns should represent Virginia at the U.S. Capitol

A state panel in Virginia will soon make a decision about the replacement for Virginia’s Robert E

A state panel is soliciting recommendations on what should replace Virginia’s Robert E

Change came to Richmond’s historic Monument Avenue this summer at whiplash speed when the city’s mayor invoked emergency powers and ordered the removal of Confederate statues that had towered over the city for around a century.

A new poll shows Virginians about evenly divided on whether Confederate statues throughout the state should be removed

Crews have removed a statue of an unnamed Confederate soldier that stood outside a courthouse in Charlottesville, Virginia, near the site of a white nationalist rally in 2017. The statue is set to be relocated to a historic battlefield. Forgoing an in-person ceremony because of the coronavirus pandemic, Albemarle County livestreamed the removal on Facebook Saturday as workers used saws…

Officials in a Virginia county say its Confederate soldier statue, cannons and cannonballs are being relocated to a battlefield in the Shenandoah Valley after they are removed on Saturday

The Portsmouth, Virginia, police chief is on paid leave after her department charged several people with conspiring to damage a Confederate monument

Virginia has removed from its iconic state capitol the busts and a statue honoring Confederate generals and officials

A Confederate statue that stood outside the Loudoun County courthouse was removed overnight Tuesday.  Photos show orange cones in the place of the statue in Leesburg, Virginia.  The county board of supervisors voted earlier this month to remove the statue, which the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected in 1908.  The Loudoun County chapter of the group hired a...

The state of Virginia plans to remove the large statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday night to remove a Confederate statue that has stood outside the Leesburg Courthouse for 112 years. The United Daughters of the Confederacy erected this statue in 1908. The board approved having it taken down no later than Sept. 7. People from around the county showed up for the virtual board meeting and…

Work crews on Tuesday took down a monument to Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, the third major statue to be cleared away in less than a week as the Confederacy’s former capital rushes to remove symbols of oppression in response to protests against police brutality and racism. As a crowd cheered, crews strapped the huge bronze equestrian statue in harnesses...

Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney on Wednesday ordered the removal of all Confederate statues on city land. “We have an urgent need to protect the public,” Stoney said in a statement.