The Richmond-based missionary group is seeking a permit for two five-story buildings that would fill a surface parking lot and replace an office building.
Slavery Apologistâs Video Gets Play in Virginia Governorâs Race
Anonymous text messages point Republican voters to his video attacking the apparent front-runner.
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Confederate monuments like this statue of Robert E. Lee, pictured in June 2020 in Richmond, Virginia, have become a political flashpoint as Donald Trump has tightened his grip on the Republican Party.
WASHINGTON â While much of Virginia is ready to move past its history as the seat of the Confederacy, love for the Old South seems alive and well in the Republican race for governor, with a slavery apologistâs attack against the likely front-runner making its way to voters via anonymous text messages.
History Abounds in Richmond, Virginia
The first time I set foot in Richmond, Virginia, I was an aspiring writer working on a (terrible) novel about a family torn apart by differing loyalties during the Civil War. Newly married, living in Charlottesville, Virginia, I was fascinated by the amount of resources the state of Virginia provided about the war, its background, and the lives of the people who fought in it. Historic homes on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. (James Kirkikis/Shutterstock)
I was in Richmond to visit the American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy. As a born and raised New Yorker, I had little understanding of the complexities of the war and the tumultuous years that led up to it. I expected to spend the entire day in the museum, head buried in displays and paragraphs of text I could eventually transfer to the backdrop of my book.
Virginia governor to announce removal of Lee statue
By ALAN SUDERMAN and SARAH RANKINJune 3, 2020 GMT
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is expected to announce plans Thursday to remove one of the country’s most iconic monuments to the Confederacy, a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee along Richmond’s prominent Monument Avenue, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.
The move would be an extraordinary victory for civil rights activists, whose calls for the removal of that monument and others in this former capital of the Confederacy have been resisted for years.
“That is a symbol for so many people, black and otherwise, of a time gone by of hate and oppression and being made to feel less than,” said Del. Jay Jones, a black lawmaker from Norfolk. He said he was “overcome” by emotion when he learned the statue was to come down.