In Virginia, local governments had been banned from removing Confederate memorials and statues until the law was changed in 2020, though the statute did not apply to school names.

The school board of Shenandoah County in Virginia voted to restore two schools' original names derived from Confederate generals. The school names were changed in 2020 by a vote from the same board.

A Virginia school district is poised to restore the names of Confederate leaders to two local schools − four years after the decision to change the names during the racial reckoning of 2020.. In ...

Schools Confederate Names FLE - A statue of confederate general Stonewall Jackson is removed on July 1, 2020, in Richmond, Va. Shenandoah County, Virginia's school board voted 5-1 early Friday ...

The Virginia NAACP has filed a lawsuit, claiming that the restoration of confederate names on two schools will negatively impact Black students' educations.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human ...

The Shenandoah County School Board in Virginia will restore the names of Confederate generals Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Turner Ashby to two local schools.

Fort A.P. Hill was once named after a Confederate general. Now it’s named after three Union soldiers whose surnames are Anderson, Pinn and Hill.

In 2015, nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. were slain during a Bible study by Dylann Roof, a white supremacist. Photographs later emerged of the killer carrying a Confederate flag.

Virginia's Shenandoah County School Board voted Thursday to revert two schools back to their original names honoring Confederate generals that were abandoned in 2020.

In Virginia, local governments had been banned from removing Confederate memorials and statues until the law was changed in 2020, though the statute did not apply to school names. Advertisement ...

Confederate Remains Williamsburg Small bouquets adorn the graves of newly re-interred Confederate soldiers at Cedar Grove Cemetery in Williamsburg, Va., on June 3, 2025. (Jack Gary via AP) ...