Two weeks after the 6o-foot-tall statue of Robert E. Lee was removed in Richmond, Va., the former Confederate ... was unveiled Wednesday on Brown's Island on the James River in downtown Richmond ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- A new monument on Brown's Island in Richmond was unveiled on Wednesday morning. The Emancipation and Freedom Monument honors the contributions of African Americans in Virginia who ...

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RICHMOND — It’s probably not true that Bob Brown traded tomato plants with Thomas Jefferson or sipped bourbon with Abraham Lincoln, though you might hear such tales around Virginia’s Capitol.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The bronze statue of Virginia Gov ... integration in Virginia schools following the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education ruling that established racial ...

One statue came down in Richmond, Va., but the city ... circle on Richmond’s famed Monument Avenue, the Emancipation and Freedom Monument was unveiled in Brown’s Island, a public park ...

On Wednesday morning in Richmond, Va., as a crane dislodged the 12-ton statue of Robert ... off the city’s shoulders today—particularly the shoulders of Black and brown people, who for over ...

The graffiti-smeared statue ... city's statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, authorities said Friday, June 12, 2020. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP) (Bob Brown) RICHMOND, Va.

Virginia's capital city began taking down its statue of Stonewall Jackson after Mayor Levar Stoney ordered the immediate removal of multiple Confederate statues in Richmond. A crane and a cherry ...

RICHMOND, Va ... to remove the statues. He said the money would come from the Department of Public Works and be reimbursed by a private fund. While city attorney Haskell Brown told Richmond ...

The city of Richmond, Virginia ... intersection of the city’s Hermitage Road and Laburnum Avenue. “Over two years ago, Richmond was home to more confederate statues than any city in the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A project almost 10 years in the making came to fruition on Wednesday at Brown’s Island. Now visitors will see two bronze statues dedicated to African American’s fight ...