Stonewall Jackson

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.

Prince William County schools could soon vote to rename Stonewall Jackson Middle and High schools. News4’s Drew Wilder explains one option could be to rename the schools after a husband and wife who were trailblazers in local civil rights and education.

A Northern Virginia school superintendent wants to rename a high school and middle school named for Confederate general Stonewall Jackson

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

Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax stopped presiding over the state Senate for the second year in a row in protest when senators again honored a Confederate general.

The city of Charlottesville is preparing to appeal its defeat in a lawsuit over two Confederate monuments.

A Virginia judge has blocked the city of Charlottesville’s effort to remove Confederate statues. The Daily Progress reports the three-day civil trial that ended Friday included a judge’s ruling preventing the removal of statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.

When Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam refused to resign last week, he did so in the shadow of a Capitol built by a founding father and a slave owner, in the former seat of the Confederacy still wrestling with what to do about statues that honor those who fought to preserve slavery. The 35-year-old photo on his yearbook page of a...

E-cigarettes are getting a new generation hooked, but teenagers may not understand the danger of addiction. News4’s Doreen Gentzler reports on what the FDA is doing to try to help teens kick the habit.

A space at a Baltimore park that had long honored two Confederate generals has been rededicated to abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The Baltimore Sun reports that hundreds of people gathered Saturday for the ceremony at Wyman Park Dell.

The National Park Service says it is making repairs to a Stonewall Jackson monument that was vandalized at Manassas National Battlefield.

Workers power-washed a statue of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson for hours after someone vandalized it with paint. Park officials and visitors say the statue at the Manassas Battlefield is an artifact that is there to explain history. News4’s Julie Carey reports.

A group of people has covered up a statue of Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The Washington National Cathedral is in the process of removing two stained glass windows that depict Confederate generals.

Amid conversations across the country about whether to remove Confederate statues, the Washington National Cathedral will decide soon whether to remove two stained glass windows that depict Confederate generals, News4 has learned.

News4’s Tom Sherwood reports on how the Washington National Cathedral is evaluating the future of two stained glass windows that depict Confederate generals.

As a wave of U.S. cities have moved to topple their Confederate statues in the wake of violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Richmond — which was once the capital of the Confederacy — could become the next flashpoint in the debate over what to do with its monuments. In the heart of Richmond, five statues depicting...