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RICHMOND — The debate over Confederate symbols flared in Richmond on Thursday after vandals painted the message “Black Lives Matter” on the Monument Avenue statue of Jefferson Davis ...
The Jefferson Davis monument on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, was pulled to the ground by protesters in 2020. Crews have been working to remove the pedestals of the confederate statues ...
A time capsule was found Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, below where the statue of Jefferson Davis once stood on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. (Alexa Welch Edlund/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Valentine museum confirmed to 8News that they want to acquire the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis that once stood on Richmond’s Monument Avenue.
By embracing the racist ideology of the Lost Cause, the makers of Monument Avenue also were partly neutralizing one of the few ideas that might have threatened them. Even as Richmond erected a ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Richmond Police responded to Monument Avenue after the Jefferson Davis statue was torn down. The statue of Davis, the former president of the Confederacy, is the second to ...
Protesters tore down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis along Richmond, Virginia's famed Monument Avenue on Wednesday night. The statue in the former capital of the Confederacy was ...
The statue of Jefferson Davis on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., in 2017. In the weeks since Floyd’s death under a white Minneapolis police officer’s knee set off protests and sporadic ...