After five years of speculation, Congress finally revealed which Virginian would replace Confederate General Robert E. Lee in ...

The U.S. Capitol has begun displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her ...

Johns was 16 years old in 1951 when she led a student strike for equal education at R.R. Moton High School in Farmville, ...

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

Capitol unveils statue replacing Robert E Lee - Johns is known for protesting poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high ...

The Commonwealth of Virginia will now be properly represented by an actual patriot who embodied the principle of liberty and ...

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

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

In an unusual trial, the N.A.A.C.P. has sought to show a school board’s “racist intent” by proving that the names of Robert E ...

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

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The reality TV alum is heading back to screens with her new show, Kimora: Back in the Fab Lane, premiering on E! on Dec. 2. But for the 50-year-old, whose new show marks her first in over a decade, it ...