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Civil rights leader Barbara Rose Johns statue set to be approved for U.S. Capitol
The Commission for Historical Statues is set to approve a bronze statue of 20th-century civil rights leader Barbara Rose ...
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Richmond is taking down Confederate statues: Is this the end for other Confederate memorials?
RICHMOND, Va. – The statue of Robert E. Lee has towered over Richmond for more than 100 years. In recent days, though, it's been conveying a different message - words like "Black lives matter ...
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Richmond, Va., tore down its statues and revealed its history
RICHMOND, Va. — Old Jeff Davis now lies on his back ... From 1907 to June 10, 2020, the people of Richmond looked up at this statue, set on a high plinth beneath a towering column on Monument ...
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Two years after protests, some of Richmond’s Confederate statues remain
RICHMOND — The scars where Confederate statues once stood along Monument Avenue are now covered with pavement or landscaping, and social justice protests have largely gone silent. But just ...
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In Richmond, Va., Protesters Transform A Confederate Statue
and families gathering at the base of a statue to Gen. Robert E. Lee and other Confederate memorials in Richmond, Va. - now covered in graffiti including anti-racist slogans and messages.
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An Emancipation Statue Debuts In Virginia Two Weeks After Robert E. Lee Was Removed
Two weeks after the 6o-foot-tall statue of Robert E. Lee was removed in Richmond, Va., the former Confederate capital city has become home to a new statue, this one commemorating the abolition of ...
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Richmond’s statues fell. Now these sisters aim to lift up Black history.
RICHMOND — It’s easy to think of ghosts on this forgotten plot of land, severed from the rest of the city by a highway and left to wither beside an ancient cemetery. Where hundreds of families ...
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Another Confederate statue in Richmond, Va., comes down along Monument Avenue
Another Confederate statue on Richmond's iconic Monument Avenue was removed Tuesday, the third in a week and the final one owned by the city that was once the capital of the Confederacy.
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Richmond’s Last Confederate Statue Is Removed
By Christine Hauser The last Confederate statue in Richmond, Va., was removed on Monday, and the remains beneath it of Ambrose P. Hill, the Confederate lieutenant general who was memorialized ...
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Richmond Removes Confederate Statues From Monument Avenue
The former capital, Richmond, Va., took down a statue of the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson last Wednesday after Mayor Levar Stoney used emergency powers to order its immediate removal ...
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What should happen to Richmond’s removed confederate statues? Learn how you can vote here
Va. (WRIC) — The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia and The Valentine are asking for the public’s opinion on what to do with Richmond’s confederate statues. Nine ...