The Virginia Senate has advanced legislation to scrap the state’s Lee-Jackson holiday celebrating two Confederate generals.

People in Alexandria have long discussed what to do with a Confederate statue standing smack in the middle of an Old Town intersection. Over the weekend, a driver crashed into the statue, knocking it off its axis. Some residents are worried it’s a safety hazard. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

The Virginia Republican who embraced Confederate monuments and associated with white supremacists during failed statewide office bids will head a conservative super PAC.

A local high school named after a Confederate general will now be called Washington-Liberty High School.

Four members of a militant white supremacist group from California were arrested on charges they traveled to Virginia last year to incite a riot and attack counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally that turned deadly, federal authorities said Tuesday.

Protesters in Durham, N.C. toppled a Confederate monument Monday night. The statue, called “The Confederate Soldiers Monument,” was dedicated in 1924. It was pulled down Monday and protesters stomped on it.

A Richmond, Virginia, school that honored a confederate general has been renamed Barack Obama Elementary.

White millennials are divided on whether they think President Donald Trump is racist, an opinion held by overwhelming majorities of their minority counterparts, a new poll revealed Tuesday. And while all millennials agree that African-Americans experience the most racial discrimination, young whites are also split down almost the exact same lines on whether they think discrimination against whites is as...

A woman plans to fly a huge “Black Lives Matter” flag in her backyard using an 80-foot tall flag pole. She wants to hang the flag in protest of a Confederate flag nearby. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.

North Carolina’s Durham Public Schools Board members unanimously passed changes into the student dress code Thursday evening, nearly two weeks after the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.

Candidates for governor of Virginia take stands on who is responsible for the bloodshed in Charlottesville and spar over the future of Confederate memorials. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

Charlottesville residents are getting a chance to talk with city officials about a white nationalist rally earlier this month that devolved into deadly violence. The city is hosting what it calls a “community recovery town hall” on Sunday, after it had been rescheduled from Thursday, in collaboration with the Community Relations Services of the Department of Justice. Officials will provide...

University of Texas President Greg Fenves has ordered the immediate removal of statues of Robert E. Lee and other prominent Confederate figures from a main area of campus, saying such monuments have become “symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism.” Fenves says statues of Lee, Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate Postmaster General John H. Reagan will be moved...

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is calling on communities to take down Confederate monuments in light of the deadly violence in Charlottesville.

Protesters in Durham, N.C. toppled a Confederate monument Monday night. The statue, called “The Confederate Soldiers Monument,” was dedicated in 1924. It was pulled down Monday and protesters stomped on it.

A Montgomery County judge said Wednesday that Firefighter Idris Debruhl’s behavior in response to his coworker’s Confederate flag license plate was “unconscionable” and “way out of line,” but that he did not believe Debruhl would act the same way again. News4’s Pat Collins reports.

They were among the city’s oldest landmarks, as cemented to the landscape of New Orleans as the Superdome and St. Louis Cathedral: a stone obelisk heralding white supremacy and three statues of Confederate stalwarts....
But after decades standing sentinel over this Southern city, the Confederate monuments are gone, amid a controversy that at times hearkened back to the divisiveness of the...

Piece by piece, New Orleans’ landscape is changing as city workers take down massive works of bronze and stone that once seemed immovable in a region where some still cling to a Confederate legacy. The city announced late Tuesday that it had begun the process of removing a statue of Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard — the third of four monuments...

The statue of the Confederacy’s president had been hoisted from its stone pedestal in the pre-dawn hours and the blue glint of police lights was still visible two blocks away outside the corner laundromat where Carol Patterson sat as diverted rush-hour traffic rolled by....
“It’s entertaining,” Patterson, 74, said of the hubbub surrounding the Wednesday morning removal of the statue from...

The Confederate flag has been removed from a flagpole on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse, where it has had a presence for 54 years. The rebel banner was taken down Friday morning by a Highway Patrol honor guard in a ceremony attended by thousands who cheered at the removal, many yelling “USA, USA” and “Hey, hey, hey, goodbye!”...