Confederate statue removed from Charlottesville, Virginia courthouse

The Confederate statue “At Ready” stood outside the Albemarle County courthouse for 111 years A major step was taken to abolish one of the divisive symbols of the Civil War as workers used a crane to hoist a Confederate statue and remove it from its pedestal early Saturday. Members of a community still bearing the emotional scars from the racial violence of 2017 stood behind metal barricades and erupted in cheers as the bronze figure of a Confederate soldier, called...