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August 8, 2020
By Bobby Bordelon Reporting by Aila Boyd, Taylor Boyd, and Shawn Nowlin Since the United States once again began to reconsider confederate monuments after the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minnesota, several Virginia cities are re-examining their relationship to their past legacies with the confederacy. Virginia has taken steps to removing one prominent confederate statue in hallowed halls – in Washington D.C., the Commission for Historical Statues voted to remove the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from the National Statuary Hall. In the hall, each state is represented by statues of two prominent citizens for display….