Citizens Decry Mayor’s Plan to Put Confederate Statues ‘in Context’

By Jeremy Lazarus
Wire Service Correspondent
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Veteran NAACP activist Ora Lomax is still fuming over Richmond, Va. Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s plans for dealing with the stone and bronze figures that have been defining symbols of Richmond for generations — the statues of Confederate defenders of slavery that punctuate Monument Avenue in the former capital of the Confederacy.
A civil rights activist and NAACP stalwart for 60 years, Lomax is irked about the direc