CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was hoisted away from its place of prominence in Charlottesville on Saturday and carted off to storage, years after its ...

The city was the center of the 2017 "unite the right" rally. Nearly four years after white supremacists marched through Charlottesville, Virginia, protesting a proposal to take down a Confederate ...

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 ...

A now-removed Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville (via Wikimedia Commons) On Tuesday morning, Charlottesville’s City Council voted unanimously to melt down the Robert E. Lee statue that used to ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Charlottesville says a Confederate monument that helped spark a violent white supremacist rally is set to come down Saturday. The city said in a news release Friday afternoon that ...

A statue of the Confederate general that inspired a violent 2017 white supremacist march will be melted down by a local African-American history museum, it’s molten remnants refashioned by Black ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA - JULY 10: Workers remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from Market Street Park July 10, 2021 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Initial plans to remove the statue ...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Virginia's highest court has ruled that the city of Charlottesville can take down two statues of Confederate generals, including one of Robert E. Lee that became the focus of ...

A rare document signed by President Abraham Lincoln at the White House three days before he was killed was found in a desk and is now up for auction. U.S. News // 1 year ago Controversial statue of ...

The Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the state can remove a large statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from the city of Richmond's "Monument Avenue." Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam ...