Confederate Monuments and Other Disputed Memorials Have Come Down in Cities Across America. What Should Take Their Place?

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Confederate Monuments and Other Disputed Memorials Have Come Down in Cities Across America. What Should Take Their Place?

… engages with the experience of Black Americans, and also likes a … first sculpture of a contemporary African-American woman to be commissioned … the nearly 200,000 Black Americans who fought for their … to see monuments to Black Americans in positions of power …

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