People gathered in Lexington on Friday to celebrate Lee-Jackson Day. While it is no longer a state holiday, many in the area ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... I was in Richmond, Virginia in 2020 when thousands of protesters desecrated the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and later ...

In an unusual trial, the N.A.A.C.P. has sought to show a school board’s “racist intent” by proving that the names of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson can’t be separated from white supremacy. By ...

“The Commonwealth of Virginia will now be properly represented by an actual patriot who embodied the principle of liberty and justice for all, and not a traitor who took up arms against the United ...

LEXINGTON, S.C. — The Lexington Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating Robert Williams, who walked away from his residence at 200 Libby Lane on Tuesday afternoon. Williams was ...

CHARLESTON — In 2020, Marion Square said goodbye to one famous Southern leader and enslaver, John C. Calhoun. On Dec. 11, the downtown park welcomed another, Gen. Robert E. Lee. Five years after ...

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

Dec. 17 (UPI) --A statue of Barbara Rose Johns, a Black teenage girl who protested segregation, has been unveiled at the U.S. Capitol, four years after Virginia selected the civil rights icon to ...

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

More than seven decades after she stood up inside a segregated Virginia high school, civil rights pioneer Barbara Rose Johns now stands in the U.S. Capitol—immortalized in bronze and representing the ...