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As the Fate of Many Confederate Memorials Remains Undecided, Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Statue Heads to a Virginia Museum The controversial sculpture will likely go on view in a larger exhibition about the evolution of Confederate memorialization. December 23, 2020 The statue of Robert E. Lee at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture in Richmond. Courtesy of the VMHC. Earlier this week, a life-sized bronze statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was unceremoniously removed from the U.S. capitol more than a century after it was installed. But just as quickly as the question over the cont...

A Statue of Civil Rights Activist Barbara Rose Johns May Soon Replace One of Robert E. Lee in the US Capitol Building The new statue would commemorate a key figure in the Brown vs. Board of Ed Supreme Court decision. December 21, 2020 Virginia's statue of Robert E. Lee in the US Capitol. Photo: Jack Mayer, Office of Governor Northam. Early this morning, workers removed a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from the US Capitol building in Washington, DC. Erected in 1909, the sculpture was one of two representing Virginia in the building’s National Statuary Hall, where every state get...

BY ANDREW CAIN Richmond Times-Dispatch Virginia removed its statue of Robert E. Lee from the U.S. Capitol overnight, the latest move in the state's purge of Confederate iconography in a year of reckoning on racial injustice. Each state gets two statues in the Statuary Hall collection. Since 1909 Virginia's statues have depicted George Washington and Lee. A state panel last week recommended to the General Assembly that Virginia replace its Lee statue with a statue of teenage civil rights heroine Barbara Johns. "We should all be proud of this important step forward for our Commonwea...

Governor donates plasma to help those struggling with COVID-19 Virginia Governor Ralph Northam donated his plasma Friday. As a COVID survivor, the governor's plasma contains COVID-19 antibodies that could help treat others with the virus. By: WTVR CBS 6 Web Staff Posted at 11:12 AM, Dec 18, 2020 and last updated 2020-12-18 12:28:03-05 RICHMOND, Va. -- Virginia Governor Ralph Northam donated his plasma Friday. As a COVID survivor, the governor's plasma contains COVID-19 antibodies that could help treat others with the virus. The governor took the opportunity to address ongoi...