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FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017 file photo, city workers drape a tarp over a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Emancipation park in Charlottesville, Va., intended to symbolize the city's mourning for Heather Heyer who was killed while protesting a white nationalist rally earlier in the month. On Thursday, April 1, 2021, Virginia's highest court ruled that the city of Charlottesville can take down this and another statue of a Confederate general. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

High court: Charlottesville can remove Confederate statues

By MATTHEW BARAKAT and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 22, 2019 file photo, Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker speaks during a press conference at the Charlottesville Police Department in Charlottesville, Va. Walker, the first Black woman to be mayor of Charlottesville has posted poetry on Twitter and Facebook that has drawn national attention for descriptions of a picturesque college town that is indelibly linked to a slave-owning U.S. president and a deadly white nationalist rally. (Andrew Shurtleff/The Daily Progress via AP, File)

Charlottesville mayor’s poem about city, racism ‘hits nerve’

By BEN FINLEY - Associated Press

5 names added to a memorial to enslaved workers at UVA

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In this Aug. 12, 2017 file photo, white nationalist demonstrators clash with counter demonstrators at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Man who attacked Virginia protesters avoids federal prison

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

Health district in Virginia to drop ‘Jefferson’ from name

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In this Sept. 7, 2020 photo, a protester carries a Proud Boys banner, symbol of a right-wing group, while other members start to unfurl a large U.S. flag in front of the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Ore. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File)

Trump Proud Boys remark echoes Charlottesville

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

This undated booking file photo provided by the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail shows Christopher Cantwell, of New Hampshire. On Monday, Sept. 28, 2020, a federal jury in Concord, N.H., found a Cantwell guilty of threatening to rape the wife of a man who was part of a racist group he felt was harassing and bullying him. (Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail via AP, File)

Jury finds white nationalist guilty of rape threat

By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press

Jury gets case of white supremacist accused of rape threat

By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press

FILE - This undated booking file photo provided by the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail shows Christopher Cantwell, of New Hampshire. Cantwell went on trial Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, on federal charges of threatening to rape the wife of a person with whom he was having a dispute. (Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail via AP, File)

New Hampshire white nationalist on trial over rape threats

By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press

Arrest warrant issued for neo-Nazi podcaster in lawsuit

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

Charlottesville removes Confederate statue near rally site

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A bronze statue of an unnamed Confederate soldier, titled &quot;At Ready,&quot; stands outside of the Albemarle County Courthouse on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020, in Charlottesville, Va. The 1909 statue, two cannons and several cannonballs will be removed Sept. 12. (Erin Edgerton/The Daily Progress via AP)

Confederate statue to be moved in Charlottesville, Virginia

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Court finds parts of anti-riot law violate free speech

By DENISE LAVOIE - Associated Press

Former Delaware gov writes songs, focuses on social justice

By MATT BITTLE and Delaware State News - Associated Press

Lee statue case devised by lawyer descended from slaves

By GREGORY S. SCHNEIDER and The Washington Post - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 19, 2017, file photo, White nationalist leader Richard Spencer speaks at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla. A federal magistrate judge has agreed to let an attorney withdraw from representing Spencer in a lawsuit over violence that erupted at a rally in Virginia nearly three years ago. U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Hoppe’s order on Monday, June 22, 2020, leaves Spencer to defend himself against the lawsuit, which names him as one of the organizers of the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in August 2017. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

White nationalist Richard Spencer loses lawyer in lawsuit

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

Protesters hold an American flag during a rally against Michigan’s coronavirus stay-at-home order at the State Capitol in Lansing, Mich., Thursday, May 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Joy Behar likens shutdown protesters to ‘white supremacists and neo-nazis’ during anti-Trump rant

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

School shutdown hits special education classrooms hard

By KATHERINE KNOTT and The Daily Progress - Associated Press

In this Aug. 6, 2018, file photo, a visitor eats lunch in front of a statue of Robert E. Lee that is surrounded by fencing and a No Trespassing sign in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Confederate monuments defaced with ‘pandemic’ graffiti in Charlottesville

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times