The Robert E. Lee Memorial Bridge should be renamed, and the best idea so far is to call it after the city street at its northern end, Belvidere, the City Council’s Land Use and Transportation ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Plans to rename the Robert E. Lee Memorial Bridge to Belvidere Bridge have been scrapped after opposition over the replacement’s link to a plantation mansion in Richmond ...

On Wednesday morning in Richmond, Va., as a crane dislodged the 12-ton statue of Robert E. Lee, Confederate general ... As images of the Lee memorial appeared in the news, and as reports of ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC ... It was built in 1933 and renamed the Robert E. Lee Memorial Bridge in 1934. Lynch wants the History and Culture Commission to hold one or more community input sessions ...

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA – SEPTEMBER 08: The statue of Robert E. Lee is lowered from its pedestal at Robert E. Lee Memorial during a removal September 8, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. The Commonwealth ...

RICHMOND, Va. – A 131-year-old Robert E. Lee memorial statue, which served as both a symbol of Confederate heritage and the unofficial ground zero of racial equity demonstrations in Virginia's ...

A monument honoring the abolition of slavery was dedicated on Wednesday in Richmond, Virginia, just two miles from where a hulking statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once prominently stood.

Robert E. Lee more than 130 years ... including one from a group of residents from Richmond's historic Monument Avenue that wanted to keep the 61-foot-tall memorial intact. Last week, the Virginia ...

A Richmond memorial to Robert E. Lee is in the midst of demolition. Sign up for our Daily eBlast to get coverage on Black communities from the media company who has been doing it right for over ...

(RNS) — The last Confederate monument still standing on Richmond, Virginia’s Monument Avenue, the massive tribute to General Robert E. Lee ... the city placed a memorial to Ashe on Monument ...

The statue of Robert E. Lee stands at Robert E. Lee Memorial on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., Sept. 7, 2021. Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE Although the time capsule won't be opened Monday ...