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.
The Virginia city took down statues of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, toppling symbols that were at the center of the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017.
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.
Kehinde Wiley's new sculpture mimics one of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart. The new work stands in front of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, a mile from its inspiration.
The Alabama Supreme Court said the lower court erred earlier this year when it ruled the city of Birmingham had constitutional rights to free speech. The city must now pay a $25,000 fine.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has spent millions providing round-the-clock protection to guard graves and memorials dedicated to Confederate soldiers.
The city's mayor signed a bill renaming three streets. Many local governments have taken similar measures in the wake of last year's white supremacist riots in Charlottesville, Virginia.
It also recommends at least one monument to be added to the Capitol grounds that highlights the contributions of the state's African American citizens, and new signage on the existing statues.
A crowd of about 250 students, faculty and residents stormed the bronze sculpture of a Confederate soldier, using ropes to yank it from its century-old pedestal.
The coverings, which had been in place since a white supremacist rally in the Virginia city ended in bloodshed last August, were ordered removed by a judge on Tuesday.
To skirt a state law prohibiting the monuments' removal, the city sold two of its parks to a new nonprofit. "In all of my life in Memphis, I've never seen such solidarity," said Mayor Jim Strickland.
"Are these windows, installed in 1953, an appropriate part of the sacred fabric of a spiritual home for the nation?" The answer, the cathedral's leadership decided Tuesday, is no.
Oklahoma City school leaders announced they wanted the community to decide whether to change the names of four schools, only to find that some important details about the schools may be lost to time.
The black tarps are a gesture of the city's mourning for Heather Heyer, who was struck and killed by a driver while she was protesting against a white supremacist rally on Aug. 12.
President Greg Fenves ordered the immediate removal of statues of Robert E. Lee and three other figures from a main area of campus. The removals should be complete by mid-morning Monday.
