

Virginia is set to remove Richmond's Lee statue on Wednesday


By DENISE LAVOIE RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, is expected to be taken down on Wednesday as a symbol of racial injustice, more than 130 years after it was erected in tribute to the South’s Civil War leader. While many other Confederate symbols across the South have been removed without public announcements beforehand to avoid unruly