July 2, 2020 Richmond will dismantle 11 statues with Confederate links overall, mayor says, as 2nd monument comes down Work crews in Richmond, Va., removed the second Confederate statue Thursday, one day after Mayor Levar Stoney enacted emergency powers to have eleven statues taken down in light of recent protests.
June 22, 2020 Protesters pepper-sprayed during clashes with Virginia police over Confederate statues Virginia police officers purportedly pepper-sprayed protesters late Sunday following another night of unrest in Richmond over the removal of Confederate statues.
June 18, 2020 What happens to Confederate statues after they’re removed? Once the memorials to historical figures ranging from Robert E. Lee to Christopher Columbus are ripped from the plinths, public officials then need to figure out what to do with them.
June 18, 2020 Virginia judge extends injunction barring removal of Gen. Robert E. Lee statue An injunction blocking Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam from removing a 21-foot-tall statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has been indefinitely extended, a Richmond judge ruled Thursday.
June 18, 2020 Laura Ingraham: If Biden wins, he'll be no more than a 'figurehead' for the radical left If presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wins the election in November, he will be no more than a figurehead for the radical left, "The Ingraham Angle" host Laura Ingraham asserted Wednesday night.
June 16, 2020 Pharrell Williams advocates for Juneteenth to become an official holiday in the state of Virginia Pharrell Williams is hoping to make a change.
June 16, 2020 Virginia's Northam proposes making Juneteenth an official holiday in Virginia Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced on Tuesday that he plans to make Juneteenth – the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States – an official holiday in the state that was once the capital of the Confederacy.
June 12, 2020 Virginia's push to remove Confederate statues leaves some longtime residents in moral limbo On a rainy Thursday evening in Richmond, Va., a 47-year-old man dressed in dark jeans and a black T-shirt with a white skull on the back knelt on the wet green grass on Monument Avenue and cried.
June 10, 2020 Virginia Gov. Northam will allow K-12 schools to resume in person classes as early as summer Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday that all public and private schools in Virginia are on track to reopen as soon as this summer and in the fall for in-person classes.
June 7, 2020 Protesters topple Confederate statue in Virginia capital A small group of demonstrators toppled a statue of a Confederate general in the the former capital of the Confederacy late Saturday, following a day of largely peaceful protests in the Virginia city.
