Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ... The effort picked up steam after the murder of George Floyd and the rise in Black Lives Matter protests around the country calling ...

The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that ... s Black history museum executive director Andrea Douglas, "will turn bronze ingots made from molten Lee into a new piece of public artwork ...

She becomes the highest-ranking Black woman ... with the family of Lt. Colonel Charity Adams, from Columbia SC, on the right. A Virginia Army base previously named for Robert E. Lee was renamed ...

Descendants of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and descendants of slaves owned by Lee face Washington, DC, as they pose for a photo during a reunion at Lee's former plantation home, the ...

Descendants of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and descendants of slaves owned ... The City Council voted to have the statue melted down and allowed Black artists to transform it into something ...

Descendants of the enslavers and the enslaved unite for a family portrait at the Arlington House, the former plantation once owned by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary Custis Lee.

There was a one-of-a-kind reunion over the weekend at Arlington House – the national memorial to Robert E. Lee that sits atop a hill in Arlington National Cemetery. Descendants of the ...

Descendants of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will gather with descendants of enslaved persons at the place where they once lived: Lee’s former plantation home, Arlington House. The reunion ...

a cousin asked him if he knew he was descended from the first family of the United States. “As a Black kid in Denver, I said to myself ‘Get outta here! No way,’” recalled Hammond, an interpretive ...

Robert E. Lee. He proved them wrong with a 400-page genealogy report he received in ... who also happened to be a Black woman. He viewed her as a second grandmother, and she would constantly ...

The massive statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va., taken down in September, will be moved to the city's Black History Museum, Gov. Ralph Northam and Mayor Levar Stoney ...