The school had dropped the Stratford name in 1979. Not because of its association with Lee — we weren’t having that debate then — but rather because the county’s population was changing.

Workmen haul away a bust of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson past the statue of Robert E. Lee in the Old House Chamber inside the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Va., July 23, 2020.

A Virginia school district announced on Thursday that it would rename Robert E. Lee High School in Springfield for John Lewis, the Georgia congressman and civil rights giant who died last week ...

Virginia removes 12-ton Robert E. Lee statue from Richmond's Monument Avenue The governor ordered the removal of the state-owned statue in June 2020. By Meredith Deliso and Emily Shapiro ...

The eleventh-largest school district in the U.S. has renamed a high school formerly known as Robert E. Lee High School after civil rights icon John Lewis. The school board in Fairfax County ...

Officials in a northern Virginia county near the nation’s capital have voted to rename a major highway that currently shares a name with Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in honor of an abolitionist.

Putting the names of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson back on Virginia schools is reminder of how politically powerful those Confederate figures are (and have been for generations) in that ...

The Fairfax County, Virginia, school board is scheduled to vote Tuesday evening on a recommendation to change the name of Robert E. Lee High School.

Authorities are investigating a fatal crash which occurred Friday in Lee County, Virginia. Virginia State Police responded to a two-vehicle crash on Route 58A, nearly a quarter-mile west of Route 829.

RICHMOND — The Supreme Court of Virginia has cleared the way for the city of Charlottesville to take down the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was the focus of 2017's deadly Unite ...

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