Gov. Ralph S. Northam speaks at a news conference Tuesday in front of the 50-foot memorial arch at Fort Monroe, showing that the letters honoring Confederate president Jefferson Davis have been removed. With the governor are, from left, state Sen. Mamie Locke of Hampton; Glenn Oder, executive director of the Fort Monroe Authority; and Molly J. Ward, former state secretary of natural resources and a former trustee of the authority.
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Gov. Northam praises removal of Confederate honor at Fort Monroe
Gov. Ralph S. Northam praised the state’s removal of Confederate president Jefferson Davis’ name from an archway at the site where the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia 400 years ago.
