confederate monuments

A small box was found in the pedestal that used to hold a statue of the Confederate general in Richmond, Va. It took hours for experts to open the box and find several water-damaged items inside.

The Swords Into Plowshares project, led by the Jefferson School American Heritage Center, a local Black-led nonprofit, involves the statute at the heart of the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017.

Statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson will be removed in the Virginia city almost four years after the deadly Unite the Right rally.

The statue of a 19th-century North Carolina Supreme Court justice was removed on Monday from the entrance of the state Court of Appeals building in Raleigh.

The City of Lexington is scheduled to discuss a letter to Davidson County Commissioners asking them to remove the Confederate Monument that stands on a Main Street square.

Lexington's Main Street was busy this weekend with the sounds of protesters and rally-goers making their voices heard for causes that spanned the political spectrum.

The statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike was long a unique sight in the nation's capital. But it met the same inglorious fate Friday as a host of other controversial monuments across the U.S.

The statue of the president of the Confederacy has stood atop a large pedestal on Richmond's Monument Avenue since 1907. It is the third statue in Richmond torn down this week.