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 ...

On Oct. 11, 1919, the statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, by Richmond sculptor Frederick William Sievers, debuted at what is now Arthur Ashe Boulevard and Monument.

In a symbolic rebuke of the American South’s racist history, an old Confederate monument now has a meaningful new life, four years after it was toppled in Virginia. In June 2020, protesters in ...

Richmond land may hold 700+ unmarked graves, possibly of Confederate soldiers. City plans site access for descendants after survey and $16K marker upgrade.

A grave marker honoring Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War stands on city owned property in Richmond, Virginia, on Friday May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Olivia Diaz) 29,248 people played the ...

Richmond removed its other Confederate monuments amid the racial justice protests that followed George Floyd’s killing in 2020. But efforts to remove the Hill statue, which sat in the middle of ...

City leaders have asked for the monument to be placed in the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia, along with 11 other Confederate monuments that had been erected after the Civil War in ...

A worker attaches a rope as they prepare to remove the statue of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson from its pedestal on Monument Avenue Wednesday, July 1, 2020, in Richmond, Va. July first a ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An acre of land owned by the city of Richmond contains potentially hundreds of unmarked graves, some of which could belong to Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War ...