Robert E. Lee Statue to be Removed From U.S. Capitol

Amid the Black Lives Matter protests that took place nationwide in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, a large crowd in Virginia vandalized and attempted to topple a 130-year-old statue of Robert E. Lee. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam ordered the state's Department of General Services to take down the the statue immediately, stating that "we can no longer honor a system that involved the buying and selling of enslaved people." Another statue of Lee, which is located in the United States Cap...