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Christopher Columbus statues have been removed from Grant Park and Arrigo Park in Chicago. In a statement to CBS Chicago early Friday, a rep from Mayor Lori Lightfoot‘s office said the statues were “temporarily removed” following “consultation with various stakeholders,” adding that they will remain down until further notice. “It comes in response to demonstrations […]
On Monday night, protesters gathered in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square and attempted to remove a statue of the slaveholder Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the U.S., but were unsuccessful. They used rope, which they tied to the statue, to try and pull it down. The bronze statue of Jackson was made by sculptor Clark Mills and […]
According to a report from The New York Times, the statue of former president Theodore Roosevelt standing at the entrance of Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History will be taken down. As you may have guessed if you’ve noticed the uptick in statues being removed by protestors across the U.S., this decision is related to the widespread […]
A statue of Christopher Columbus at Byrd Park, which is located in Richmond, Virginia and was dedicated back in 1927, was torn down and thrown into Landing at Fountain Lake. Images of the incident, which went down on Tuesday night, circulated on social media with many applauding the statue’s removal. Protesters used ropes to tear down the statue, ABC 8 […]
Another racist memorial has been destroyed, but this time, by the hands of protesters. Black Lives Matter demonstrators in England have removed a 100-plus-year-old statue commemorating a slave trader. The crowd in Bristol used ropes to remove the bronze statue of Edward Colton from its base. Protesters then dragged it to the River Avon and […]
An old tribute statue of 2Pac became a topic of intense discourse this week thanks to an inaccurately captioned tweet. The statue, which sadly looks almost nothing like the late music icon, was subsequently mocked in tweeted responses. While the caption stated that this was a “new” statue located in Dallas, the tribute piece actually […]
Since So Far Gone, Drake openly professed his love of Las Vegas. The city has since returned the favor. In addition to granting the rapper a residency—he just rapped that he’s earning $2 million per show—Drizzy is now immortalized at one of Vegas’ most popular wax museums. On Wednesday, Las Vegas’ Madame Tussauds announced that its new Drake figure is […]
Madame Tussauds will keep their Michael Jackson wax statues on display despite public backlash in the wake of sexual abuse allegations from Wade Robson and James Safechuck in the documentary Leaving Neverland. “The figures on display at Madame Tussauds reflect profiles that have had an impact on popular culture and that visitors expect to see,” a spokesperson […]
