A statue of Robert E. Lee stands in the Old House Chamber at the State Capitol in Richmond in 2019. The Virginia Senate voted Tuesday to eliminate Lee-Jackson Day as a state holiday.

New Date for Lee, Jackson. Va. Honors Confederate Heroes on ... a small crowd celebrated Virginia's Lee-Jackson Day on the holiday's new official date yesterday in a ceremony at Arlington ...

Though Lee-Jackson Day won’t officially be observed by the state, in Lexington, Virginia, an annual two-day celebration is still planned, according to a website for the event.

Election day will take its place. If the legislation is passed by the House and Governor Northam, Lee-Jackson Day will no longer be a state holiday. Skip Navigation ...

Surrounded by flags of the Confederacy, Braxton Spivey portrays Gen. Robert E. Lee as he leads the Richmond-based group Virginia Flaggers during the Lee-Jackson Day parade in Lexington on Saturday.

Lee-Jackson Day is currently observed on the Friday before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and results in the closing of state offices such as the DMV. From 1983 to 2000 it was celebrated as Lee ...

For more than a century, Virginia has designated a day in January to honor two military leaders from its secessionist past. As in previous years, most state offices were closed Friday for Lee ...

LEXINGTON, Va. – While the Commonwealth no longer celebrates Lee-Jackson Day as a holiday, organizers who have hosted events in the past to celebrate the day say the history must live on.

RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR) - On Monday the nation will celebrate Martin Luther King Day, but here in Virginia, Friday is Lee-Jackson Day. Friday was actually know in Virginia as Lee-Jackson-King Day ...