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Richmond, Virginia, staffers Alan Suderman, statehouse correspondent, and Sarah Rankin, reporter, used a tip from a high-level state government source to break the news that Gov. Ralph Northam planned ...
He who controls the past controls the future,” said videogame villain Kane, in Command and Conquer: Red Alert. If you prefer your quotations from a more rarified source, I think George Orwell said ...
Robert E. Lee wasn’t a Nazi, and surely would have had no sympathy for the white-supremacist goons who made his statue a rallying point in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend. That doesn’t ...
I've lost faith in the rule of law or the effectiveness of guardrails. And when it comes to Confederate monuments and our ...
In 2017, the planned removal of a Confederate statue from a park in Charlottesville, Va., led to a right-wing ... supremacists marching around a Robert E. Lee statue, it’s pretty clear what ...
Lee is removed in Richmond, Va., in September 2021. It was one of many monuments and statues to Confederate leaders removed ...
A statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis was torn down by protesters in Richmond, Virginia, on June 11, while another another one of general Robert E. Lee is set for removal by the city.
In connection with "The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram," explore a selection of FRONTLINE and ProPublica’s past documentaries and podcasts tracing the evolution of violent white supremacists and online ...
Second time capsule discovered at site of former Lee statue Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam says crews wrapping up the removal of a giant pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen.
Lee, the reluctant, tragic leader of the Confederate Army, who died in his beloved Virginia at age 63 in 1870, five years after the end of the Civil War. In a new biography, Robert E. Lee ...
Robert E. Lee melted down for future art project A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, which was removed from Charlottesville, Va.'s Market Street Park in 2021, has been melted down so that ...