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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Since it’s expected that thousands of attendees and speculators will be at the Ukrop’s Monument Avenue 10K on Saturday, April 20, the Richmond Police Department has issued a ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Stonewall Jackson was removed from his pedestal on Richmond’s Monument Avenue one year ago today. Crews removed the first of several Confederate monuments in the city as crowds ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A lawsuit filed by a group of Monument Avenue residents seeking to block the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue was dropped ahead of a hearing scheduled for Thursday, the ...
RICHMOND, Va. -- Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney maintained the city has been transparent in its communication with the public regarding future plans for Monument Avenue. After CBS 6 reported a shift in ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Two separate water main breaks in Richmond were repaired on Friday. According to a spokesperson with the city’s Department of Public Works (DPU), on Friday, September 12, two ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The country’s largest Confederate statue, and the last one standing on Richmond’s Monument Avenue, was removed this morning. The Robert E. Lee statue weighs more than 12 tons ...
RICHMOND, Va. -- A Monument Avenue home’s decades-long journey from deterioration to restoration concluded last month with the region’s priciest home sale recorded in May. The restored Tudor Revival ...
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Paul Williams from the Richmond Times-Dispatch about his columns on the confederate statues on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. (Reading) ...
Another Confederate statue on Richmond's iconic Monument Avenue was removed Tuesday, the third in a week and the final one owned by the city that was once the capital of the Confederacy. The bronze ...
(Reading) Richmond must stop waging war with the past and fight for its future. We've got to leave the lies behind. These words - written at the height of last summer's racial justice protests - ...