Monuments

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December 21, 2022
A statue of Henrietta Lacks is set to replace a monument of confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Roanoke, Virginia.
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September 28, 2022
A first-of-its-kind Black veterans monument is unveiled at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park in Buffalo, New…
June 21, 2022
Hundreds of enslaved Black Americans who filed freedom lawsuits in Missouri in the 1850s are being honored with a new…
Atlanta
April 18, 2019
Atlanta city leaders are still moving to place markers on monuments to the Confederacy around the city, but the project…
December 17, 2015
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans City Council has voted in favor of removing prominent monuments commemorating the pro-slavery…
March 22, 2013
TRAVEL -- The sequester may have shut down White House tours, but it hasn't stopped the president from opening up…
February 16, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - For all the Eve fans anticipating her triumphant return to TV, the wait is over. The rapper/actress…