RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The statue memorializing Arthur Ashe, the tennis legend and civil rights activist, will not be moving from Richmond’s Monument Avenue. Ashe’s family had informed Mayor ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Richmond Public Works will be paving the intersection of Arthur Ashe Boulevard and Monument Avenue Monday, March 14. The intersection of Arthur Ashe Boulevard .

FILE – In this July 10, 1996 file photo, a crowd gathers at the base of the Arthur Ashe Monument after the ceremony dedicating the statue on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va.

Traffic passes by the statue of tennis star Arthur Ashe on Monument Avenue, Friday, July 10, 2020, in Richmond, Va. Family members of Ashe and city officials mulled moving the statue during the ...

He explains how the Arthur Ashe statue on Monument Avenue was born. The famed tennis player and Richmond native who championed education and civil rights around the world was still alive and in ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — On Richmond’s Monument Avenue, the collection of towering statues honoring Confederate veterans was interrupted by one noticeably different: a monument to Black tennis ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — On Richmond’s Monument Avenue, a monument to Black tennis legend and civil rights activist Arthur Ashe interrupted the collection of towering statues honoring Confederate ...

A statue of civil rights activist and tennis player Arthur Ashe, the sole monument of a black man on Richmond’s Monument Avenue, was vandalized on Wednesday with “white lives matter ...

They fought the Civil War here in Richmond, Va.In some ways, ... The street is Monument Avenue, a leafy boulevard of Confederate dreams.Ashe, […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The statue memorializing Arthur Ashe, the tennis legend and civil rights activist, will not be moving from Richmond’s Monument Avenue.

RICHMOND, Va. — On Richmond’s Monument Avenue, a monument to Black tennis legend and civil rights activist Arthur Ashe interrupted the collection of towering statues honoring Confederate ...