Confederate monument

Crews removed an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a pedestal in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday.

A Tennessee panel has voted to remove the state Capitol’s bust of a Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader.

After several hours of mostly peaceful demonstrations Saturday in an Atlanta suburb that’s home to a giant Confederate memorial, large numbers of police moved in to disperse the crowds when fights broke out

Rev. Robert W. Lee IV, a descendant of General Robert E. Lee, testified in front of the House Natural Resources subcommittee on Tuesday in favor of removing statues of the Confederate general.

As statues of figures from America’s slave-owning past come down across the nation, the largest Confederate monument ever crafted may outlast them all

Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney on Wednesday ordered the removal of all Confederate statues on city land. “We have an urgent need to protect the public,” Stoney said in a statement.

A massive statue of Gen. Stonewall Jackson has been removed from Richmond, Virginia’s famed Monument Avenue

At a roundtable on the border wall on Tuesday, President Donald Trump offered to help states protect statues by imprisoning anyone caught defacing military monuments after accusing some state leaders of “being very weak in protecting their heritage and protecting their culture.” The president’s comments come after a growing call to remove statues honoring historical figures tied to slavery and...

A Confederate monument has been removed by crane from a town square near Atlanta amid cheers from the watching crowd

A judge in Richmond is expected to hear arguments over whether to extend a temporary prohibition on the removal of a prominent, historic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E

Police in Virginia say that two people have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing a Confederate monument in the city of Charlottesville. Charlottesville police spokesman Tyler Hawn said in an email that the arrests were made early Thursday morning at the statue of General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Hawn did not release the individuals’ names but said more information will be released….

Virginia is home to more Confederate memorials than any other state. For many, they are reminders of a painful history. But a new statue in Richmond is designed to offer a different take on who should be atop a monument. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

The University of North Carolina announced Wednesday that a torn-down Confederate monument won’t return to campus under a legal agreement that hands over the “Silent Sam” statue to a group of Confederate descendants. The University of North Carolina System said in a news release that a judge approved a settlement giving possession of the monument to the Sons of Confederate...

The Dallas City Council voted 11-4 on Wednesday to remove the Confederate Monument at Pioneer Cemetery.

Crews removed remnants of a Confederate statue from North Carolina’s flagship public university early Tuesday, hours after the school’s outgoing chancellor ordered that the empty pedestal be put into storage because of safety concerns. The University of North Carolina sent a statement around 1 a.m. Tuesday confirming that removal of the pedestal was under way at its Chapel Hill campus....

A Confederate statue in the heart of North Carolina’s flagship university was toppled Monday night during a rally by hundreds of protesters who decried the memorial known as “Silent Sam” as a symbol of racist heritage. The crowd gathered across the street from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill plaza for a series of speakers at 7 p.m. before...

A Missouri lawmaker said in a Wednesday Facebook post that he hoped whoever placed paint on a Confederate monument in Springfield is found and hanged, prompting Democratic leaders to ask him to step down over what they’re describing as a call for a lynching. “This is totally against the law,” Republican Rep. Warren Love wrote in the post. “I hope...

A petition to have a Confederate monument in Florida replaced with a statue of a beloved manatee that passed away Sunday has already received thousands of signatures.

Alabama lawmakers approved sweeping protections for Confederate monuments, names and other historic memorials on Friday, even as politicians elsewhere rethink the appropriateness of keeping such emblems on public property. The measure “would prohibit the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of any architecturally significant building, memorial building, memorial street, or monument” that has stood on public property for 40...