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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — As runners prepare, local drivers can too — the road closures for Ukrop’s Monument Avenue 10K have been announced. Although the 10K itself will take place on Saturday ...
A Confederate monument stands watch over the graves of more than 4,000 men in Oak Woods Cemetery, ... It’s a copy of a statue in Rosamond, Illinois, by Charles J. Mulligan, a student of Lorado Taft. .
After protesters toppled Confederate statues on Monument Avenue and then-Gov. Ralph Northam announced his intent to remove the Robert E. Lee monument, an NPR reporter asked me for a vision ...
RICHMOND, Va. -- The future of Monument Avenue in Richmond remains unclear four years after multiple Confederate statues were removed and Mayor Levar Stoney said he would embark on a planning ...
All along Sixth Avenue N and 16th Street are monuments remembering the four little girls who were tragically killed on Sept. 15, 1963, when the members of the KKK set a bomb at the church. A monument ...
The Robert E. Lee monument that towers over Monument Avenue in Richmond will be removed on Wednesday, Sept. 8, following authorization from all three branches of state government.
Richmond's Monument Avenue, once filled with statues of traitorous politicians and military officers, is now centered on one of the city's Black heroes.
The statue gradually became the center of a fashionable all-white neighborhood along Richmond's tree-lined Monument Avenue. Photograph courtesy Cook Collection, The Valentine.
With four of the six main statues on R ichmond’s Monument Avenue now removed, the boulevard is no longer a procession of great lies, about the valor and honor of Confederate generals and the ...
We look at the contrast between Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue now and when it was first planned and constructed in the late 19th century. Race.
Another Confederate statue on Richmond's iconic Monument Avenue was removed Tuesday, the third in a week and the final one owned by the city that was once the capital of the Confederacy. The ...
Richmond’s Monument Avenue must be for everyone July 6, 2020 More than 4 years ago The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond on Friday.