ESPN did not fire Robert Lee because his name offended liberals, but decided to reassign the broadcaster after three deaths during U Va. protests.

Rev. Robert W. Lee felt like his integrity was being challenged when Confederate defenders continued to accuse him of lying about being a distant relative of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Rev. Robert Lee IV is the great-great-great-nephew of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, and he says that taking down Confederate symbols in public spaces is a “no brainer.” ...

Robert Lee lost something in Virginia — and 152 years later, another Robert Lee did, too. The living Robert Lee, an ESPN broadcaster, was pulled from calling the University of Virginia home ...

Related: ESPN under fire for taking announcer Robert Lee off UVA game. Skipper added in the memo that "Robert was their primary concern" and that "they consulted with him directly" on the choice.

The Rev. Robert Wright Lee, a nephew many generations removed of Robert E. Lee, tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro why the statue of the Confederate general in Charlottesville must come down.

A pastor who claimed to be a descendent of Robert E. Lee during a series of high-profile civil rights speeches denouncing the Confederate isn’t related to the general at all, it has been revealed.

Robert W. Lee tells NPR's Michel Martin what it's like to grapple with the legacy of his ancestor, Confederate General Robert E. Lee. He wrote about this in a memoir, "A Sin by Any Other Name." ...

One Robert Lee, who lives in San Francisco and works as a business analyst, didn’t fully understand the significance his name holds in the United States until he went to college.

Twenty-year-old Robert Lee woke with a start on Sunday, December 7, 1941. After returning home late from a date the night before, he had planned to sleep all day. Instead he was awakened by what ...

The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is removed in Richmond, Va., Sept. 8, 2021, more than 130 years after it was erected.