Confederate statues

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.

As demonstrators bring down statues and attempt to topple others, police in D.C. have put up fencing in multiple spots to prevent them from doing so. News4’s Shomari Stone reports from downtown D.C.

President Donald Trump personally requested that a statue of a Confederate general be put back up, less than a week after cheering protesters toppled it and set it on fire in a Washington, D.C., park, NBC News reports. Trump called Interior Sec. David Bernhardt and asked the Park Service to restore a statue of Brigadier General Albert Pike, two...

At a roundtable on the border wall on Tuesday, President Donald Trump offered to help states protect statues by imprisoning anyone caught defacing military monuments after accusing some state leaders of “being very weak in protecting their heritage and protecting their culture.” The president’s comments come after a growing call to remove statues honoring historical figures tied to slavery and...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser decried property destruction and defended city police after demonstrators toppled and burned a Confederate statue on live TV Friday night.  A group of people used ropes to take down the statue of Gen. Albert Pike outside Metropolitan Police Department headquarters. With cameras rolling, demonstrators doused the bronze statue in lighter fluid and set it ablaze. ...

Demonstrators took down a statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike near Metropolitan Police Department headquarters late Friday. News4’s Shomari Stone was live at the scene.

Demonstrators set fire to a statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike near D.C. police headquarters after pulling it down late Friday. News4’s Shomari Stone was live at the scene.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Thursday announced that she has ordered the removal of portraits of four House speakers who served in the Confederacy that are on display at the Capitol, according to NBC News.

Virginia’s attorney general says a lawsuit seeking to stop the governor’s plan to remove a large statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E