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A vast majority of Americans say the increased focus on race and racial inequality after police killed George Floyd in 2020 ...
Richmond mayoral hopeful Joseph D. Morrissey said he no longer plans to seek the removal of the Jefferson Davis statue ... d prefer the statue wasn’t there, by taking it down that also creates ...
Richmond mayoral hopeful Joe Morrissey said he no longer plans to seek the removal of the Jefferson Davis statue ... we'd prefer the statue wasn't there, by taking it down that also creates ...
In June 2020, protesters in Richmond used ropes to pull down the bronze statue of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis, splashed paint on its surface and slung a toilet paper noose around its neck.
Richmond has since removed about a dozen statues and other memorials, from cannons and highway markers to statues of the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, and the Confederate general ...
A prominent Confederate statue that stood in Richmond for more than 100 years before protesters tore it down is back on display for the public. The Jefferson Davis statue on Monument Avenue was ...
While dismantling the pedestal that once held a Jefferson Davis statue ... came down that summer in cities across the US as widespread protests denounced racism and oppression. Richmond began ...
Lee Statue at Monument Avenue in Richmond pictured in June ... icons populating Monument Avenue—J.E.B. Stuart, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and Matthew Fontaine Maury—along with ...
Even after Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney convened a Monument Avenue Commission in 2017 to assess the statues, resulting in recommendations to remove the memorial to Mississippian Jefferson Davis and ...
Activists toppled and defaced Edward Valentine's statue ... Richmond, Virginia, wants to exhibit the sculptor’s likeness of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was defaced and pulled ...