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The group gathered in Charlottesville to mark the 100th installation anniversary.
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Eze Amos/For Swords into PlowsharesThe Swords into Plowshares project seeks to upend the narrative around the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was the center of 2017 white nationalist protests in Charlottesville. -
Shaban Athuman/VPM NewsThe political will might not exist in Richmond to remove the remaining monuments.
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The city removed the bronze statue from Market Street Park in summer 2021.
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The VPM Daily Newscast contains all your Central Virginia news in just 5 to 10 minutes. Episodes are recorded the night before.
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The VPM Daily Newscast contains all your Central Virginia news in just 5 to 10 minutes. Episodes are recorded the night before.
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The VPM Daily Newscast contains all your Central Virginia news in just 5 to 10 minutes. Episodes are recorded the night before.
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Photographer Sanjay Suchak discusses his experience capturing the moment Confederate statues were taken down in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Following the murder of George Floyd, Richmond filmmakers and protesters share their frustrations in "Why This Moment" from the beginning to the removal of confederate monuments, airs Sept. 30 on VPM PBS.
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Last Friday, Michael Paul Williams - the long-time columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch - was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the highest honor in journalism, for his “penetrating and insightful columns that led Richmond, a former capital of the Confederacy, through the painful and complicated process of dismantling the city’s monuments to white supremacy.” -
Watch “Why This Moment” on VPM PBS Tuesday, November 17 at 10pm.
