The Charleston County School District had requested Lee’s marker be removed in 2021, which spurred a legal battle with the memorial’s owner, the United Daughters of The Confederacy, which had ...

Replacing Lee’s statue in Emancipation Hall is the final piece of a multi-year project to rewrite American history.

After five years of speculation, Congress finally revealed which Virginian would replace Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the U.

The U.S. Capitol has begun displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school.

The Midland school district rebranded Robert E. Lee High as Legacy High in 2020, part of a nationwide trend to distance ...

The landmark Supreme Court case “Brown v. Board of Education,” in 1954, declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional — a watershed moment in the fight for educational ...

For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the Pentagon found a use for him. For more than a century, this Black soldier from ...

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenage Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...

A statue honoring Civil Rights activist Barbara Rose Johns will be unveiled Tuesday on Capitol Hill, taking the spot upon which a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once stood. The statue will ...