This morning, over 130 years after it was installed, the Commonwealth of Virginia finally removed the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from Monument Avenue. RVA Mag's John Donegan and Branden Wilson were on hand to see history being made. Robert E. Lee,...
What’s the mood out there, Richmond? Excited? Anxious? Relieved? It’s been two weeks since Virginia ended its universal indoor mask mandate in accordance with new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). All distancing and capacity restrictions have...
Valentine museum founder Edward Valentine was responsible for sculpting multiple Confederate monuments around Richmond. Now the museum he founded hopes to display his statue of Jefferson Davis in order to confront the role Valentine, and Richmond, played in the Lost...
Monument Avenue's Confederate monuments are slated for removal, but landscape architect Annie Lynch raises a more fundamental question: when they are gone, what will we do with their pedestals? An empty pedestal signals either an ending or a beginning. Earlier this...
Protests around the city, and into surrounding counties, have continued on a daily basis throughout this week. Here's what it looks like on the streets. Last night, the city got a message that many of its residents have been waiting for: Governor Ralph Northam would...