Denise M. Watson of the Virginian-Pilot has published this important retrospective: “The racial reckoning with Confederate monuments dates back more than a century.”

From the article: “Portsmouth’s monument to the Confederate dead was removed in August after being beheaded and splattered with paint. But it had long been a target of disdain.”

Virginia Organizing supports an end to the Dillon Rule so that communities have the power to remove monuments that celebrate the Confederacy and its “lost cause.”