A statue of tennis legend Arthur Ashe was spray painted with the words "White Lives Matter" and "WLM" on Wednesday in Richmond, Virginia. Ashe is the only Black man to win Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and ...

Despite the statue being vandalized during recent protests, and his family asking for it to come down, the statue of tennis legend Arthur Ashe will remain up on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Arthur Ashe statue on Monument Avenue was tagged with graffiti Wednesday, first with the initials “WLM” for White Lives Matter and eventually covered with “BLM” for Black ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — On Richmond's Monument Avenue, the collection of towering statues honoring Confederate veterans was interrupted by one noticeably different: a monument to Black tennis legend and ...

1968: Arthur Ashe becomes the first black person to win a U.S. singles championship, beating Bob Lutz in the final of the United States Amateur Championships. RICHMOND, Va. – Arthur Ashe was only 49 ...

More than two dozen years after his death from complications related to HIV, late tennis legend Arthur Ashe was honored Saturday by his hometown of Richmond, Va., with the renaming of a boulevard.

Richmond, Va., on Saturday formally renamed a street formerly known as the Boulevard after tennis legend and Richmond native Arthur Ashe, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Ashe, who died in ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — On Richmond’s Monument Avenue, the collection of towering statues honoring Confederate veterans was interrupted by one noticeably different: a monument to Black tennis legend and ...