Richmond, the former capital of the Confederacy, seeks local control of its Civil War monuments By Anna Sturla and Monica Haider , CNN 3 minute read ...

Civic groups installed the monuments after the end of the Civil War, from 1890 to 1929, during a period of intense anti-Black violence and the expansion of racist laws enforcing segregation.

RICHMOND — The young African American mayor of the onetime capital of the Confederacy vowed Thursday to confront his city's towering tributes to Southern Civil War figures with words instead of ...

The statue of Confederate commander Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., October 2018 (top). The Robert E. Lee monument on July 24, with projections by Dustin Klein and Alex Criqui, at ...

The city of Richmond, Virginia, started removing its last standing Confederate monument on Monday. City workers lifted the bronze statue depicting Gen. A.P. Hill, a Confederate general killed ...

Cities with Confederate history are debating whether or not to remove Civil War monuments in places like picturesque Monument Avenue, which is lined with statues for Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis ...

In a Hail Mary petition to the U.S. Supreme Court filed on behalf of former Lee monument neighbors, a distinguished attorney, Patrick M. McSweeney, warned that the Virginia court’s capricious decision ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia has removed from its iconic state capitol the busts and a statue honoring Confederate generals and officials. That includes a bronze statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee ...

RICHMOND Virginia lawmakers have passed legislation designed to prevent localities from moving Civil War monuments. The Daily Press reports that the measure passed the Senate this week on a 21-17 v… ...

Fairfax County on Thursday night removed a trio of Civil War markers in front of the county’s judicial complex, part of a broader effort in Virginia to turn a page on the state’s Confederate ...

On June 20, 1863, West Virginia seceded from Virginia to align with the Union during the Civil War. It rejected the Confederacy then, but the state hasn't taken down any Confederate statues in 2020.

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia county has voted to remove a monument marking the spot where the first Confederate soldier died in the Civil War. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors ...