Monument Avenue
This weekend team members went to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts {VMFA} to take in the Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cites exhibit before it leaving in January 2021. While on the way to the gallery they drove thru Richmond’s Monument Avenue, where statues have been removed as part of the ongoing protest against police brutality and racism.
Robert E. Lee monument is the last statue on the Avenue surrounded by Black Lives Matter signage. 
The “Lost Cause of the Confederacy” was a notion used to perpetuate racism and racist power structures during the Jim Crow era.
The Stonewall Jackson statue was removed July 2, 2020 
Former location of Jefferson Davis statue, which was toppled by rioters during the Goerge Floyd protest in June 2020.
Polls in summer of 2020 estimated that 15 to 26 million people had participated at some point in the demonstrations, making the Black Lives Matter protest the largest in US history.
Stay safe,
Kathleen
Stylish Heath 