Article 5Q0A7 Richmond’s Confederate statues are gone. What should replace them?

Richmond’s Confederate statues are gone. What should replace them?

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Leah Small in Richmond, Virginia
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The removal of Gen Robert E Lee's statue - a target for Black Lives Matter protesters - from Monument Avenue has sparked a debate on public art in Virginia

All but one plinth is now bare on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia.

Where once stood enormous statues glorifying Confederate leaders, on a thoroughfare that memorialized a white supremacist past in the former capital of the Confederacy, there is now empty space. The only monument that remains is of a black man: the Richmond native and renowned tennis player and activist Arthur Ashe.

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