Quantcast

Subscribe

Stories this photo appears in:

Tease photo

Strange fruit?

Critic: Oak evokes lynching image at Walker statue site

The fight over the tree in the planned Maggie L. Walker plaza isn’t over. Gary L. Flowers, a Richmond native and national political and civil rights operative living in Jackson Ward, has jumped into the fray with a petition drive opposing the live oak that now dominates the gateway into Jackson Ward where the monument to the great lady is to stand.