Browsing: Lee-Jackson Day

The proposed bill would make Election day a holiday instead of Lee-Jackson day.

Over the weekend, the group paraded through the streets of Lexington but said its members were boycotting businesses in the city.

Two parades on separate dates will close Lexington streets this January for the second consecutive year.

The violent clashes in Charlottesville in August have heightened concern around Lee-Jackson and MLK day in Lexington this January.

Lee-Jackson Day and MLK Day both fall on the second weekend in January this year. To avoid tensions, the city of Lexington has revised its parade permitting process.

Celebration without conflict unfolded as two official but divergent holiday parades took to Lexington’s Main Street last weekend.

By Athena Cao People put on gray uniforms and antebellum dresses Saturday for the annual Lee-Jackson Day Parade in Lexington.…