Originally published in the Autumn 2021 edition of the Virginia Defender, issue 66, printed October 25. Reproduced here for accessibility and archival purposes. For other stories in this issue or to see the full PDF, see the Autumn 2021 post here. For the full web catalog, see our Full Issues page.

Defender Joseph Rogers was quoted in a Sept. 21 Associated Press story about the Confederate statues on Richmond’s Monument Avenue coming down. AP stories are used by media outlets around the world. On Oct. 6, he was interviewed on Sunny Gardener’s WRIR’s program “Lightly on the Ground’’ about the Gabriel Gathering.

Sacred Ground Project chair Ana Edwards was quoted about Richmond’s Lee statue coming down in stories in the Los Angeles Times (Sept. 8), Salon. com (Sept. 16) and The New York Times (Sept. 25).

Virginia Defender editor Phil Wilayto was quoted in an Oct. 18 Virginia Public Media story and an Oct. 22 Associated Press story about gubernatorial candidate Princess Blanding. He also was interviewed by the Sputnik news service about a World War II Ukrainian Nazi collaborator who had avoided deportation from Canada until his death on Sept. 20 of this year.