Replacing Lee’s statue in Emancipation Hall is the final piece of a multi-year project to rewrite American history.

The Charleston County School District had requested Lee’s marker be removed in 2021, which spurred a legal battle with the ...

The Barbara Rose Johns statue replaces Robert E. Lee in the U.S. Capitol, honoring her role in ending school segregation and ...

For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the ...

MAGA fans fumed this week at Republicans who attended a ceremony to install a new statue to replace a Confederate monument ...

The state of Virginia has installed a statue of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns in the U.S. Capitol, replacing a monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Johns was 16 when she organized a ...

Unveiling of Barbara Rose Johns statue in U.S. Capitol honors her role in civil rights movement and highlights power of youth ...

The Barbara Rose Johns statue sits in the U.S. Capitol due to her determination to fight against segregation as a teen.

Lawmakers gathered in the Capitol for the unveiling of a bronze statue honoring teenage civil rights activist Barbara Rose ...

On Tuesday, a bronze-cast statue of Barbara Rose Johns — standing next to a lectern, holding a book high above her head — ...

Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she led a walkout at her high school, credited with helping end school segregation. Her statue replaces Robert E. Lee's, which was removed in 2020.

Barbara Rose Johns led a high school walkout that contributed to Brown v. Board of Education. She later graduated from Drexel ...