Taking down Richmond's last Confederate memorials

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Taking down Richmond's last Confederate memorials
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Richmond's mayor is working on a plan to replace all the remaining Confederate names on city property.

the groundwork for a final purge of Confederate memorials from city property.The big monuments might have come down, but the city is still littered with street, building and park names honoring the Confederacy and its supporters.Reader Linda T. wrote in to ask if it’s true Stoney is working on a plan to replace all the remaining Confederate names on public property.

Among the reconstituted commission's tasks would be to produce a full inventory of street, bridge and public space names "associated with the Confederacy or enslavers and outline a process to rename such locations."to make recommendations about how to add interpretive context to the city's Confederate memorials.

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