In 2017, debate over Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue sparked a violent neo-Nazi rally that left a woman dead. Now, a Black cultural center wants to melt it down and turn it into public art.

The Lee statue in Charlottesville had served as the focal point of the deadly white ... Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue will be melted down by city’s African American history museum.

But Charlottesville’s black history museum went forward with their melting plans at a foundry outside of the state last week and there’s no plans to recast the metal into cannons, ...

A proposal submitted by the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center could transform Charlottesville’s statue — and collective memory — of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, a Charlottesville-based Black history museum, said Thursday that the statue had been destroyed. Stream NBC4 newscasts for free right here ...

When it comes to Black history, Lauren Broussard thinks people often focus so much on the important but somber topics of slavery and segregation that it overshadows important contributions Black ...

Nearly two years after the city of Charlottesville declared the stretch of Fourth Street between West Main Street and Preston Avenue a Black History Pathway in 2021, the community had ...

The stretch of Fourth Street between West Main and Preston Avenue in Charlottesville was declared honorary Black History Pathway in 2021, but the pandemic prevented any sort of official celebration.

Entzminger also listed the Harrison Museum of African American culture in Roanoke and the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center in Charlottesville— both former segregated schools turned ...

Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue will be melted down by city’s African American history museum Robert E. Lee statue removed in Charlottesville; it had become focal point of deadly 2017 rally ...