Richmond, who was Richmond’s 9th District City Councilman from 2017 until 2024. “S--- didn’t change when they came down.” ...

From Jefferson Davis at Valentine Museum to stalled bridge renaming, Virginia faces ongoing debates over history and progress ...

when I moved with my child to Richmond, Virginia. One of the more jarring aspects of the city — the former capital of the Confederacy — is Monument Avenue, the “cobbled” asphalt ...

This story is the latest installment of RVA100, our series that highlights the people, places and objects that define the Richmond region ... slavery lingered on Monument Avenue.

The recent decision by Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney to remove Monument Avenue’s Confederate monuments offers an opportunity to reshape these public spaces into ...

Lee surrendered, the former capital of the Confederacy is re-examining the painful legacy that it publicly memorialized on Monument Avenue. The former capital, Richmond, Va., took down a statue of ...

Lee came down today. It had loomed over Richmond's Monument Avenue for more than 130 years. Whittney Evans of member station VPM was there when it fell. WHITTNEY EVANS, BYLINE: The statue of Robert E.

New Orleans had already removed several of its Confederate monuments -- including ... Jefferson Davis towers over Monument Avenue, Sept. 15, 2017, in Richmond, Va. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis ...

Va. (WRIC) — Stonewall Jackson was removed from his pedestal on Richmond’s Monument Avenue one year ago today. Crews removed the first of several Confederate monuments in the city as crowds ...

I live on Richmond’s ... drive up and down the avenue — in admiration or shock — viewing the mammoth statues of Confederate generals. The monuments along Monument Avenue — to Robert ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Paul Williams from the Richmond Times-Dispatch about his columns on the confederate statues on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va.