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2 Confederate statues in Charlottesville will be removed 4 years after a violent white supremacist rally
Charlottesville announced on Friday that it will remove two statues of Confederate army generals ne…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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Black Lives Matter protesters in the UK toppled a 125-year-old slave trader statue and sank it in a river
Cheers and applause from protestors accompanied the toppling of the controversial statue of Edward …
Shoshy Ciment
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Anti-racism protesters who campaign to take down statues want to 'overthrow the American Revolution,' says Trump in Mount Rushmore speech
Black Lives Matter protests have revived long-running debates about statues around the US of figure…
Sinéad Baker
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A statue of Robert E. Lee was removed in Charlottesville, 4 years after white nationalist rally
The Charlottesville City Council announced it voted unanimously to remove statues depicting Confede…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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China built a massive 190-foot statue of a god of war that locals don't like. Now it'll cost more than $20 million to move the hulking work of art.
Officials ordered the 1,200-ton bronze statue of Chinese warrior-god Guan Yu to be relocated to a l…
Cheryl Teh
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France is sending a 'little sister' replica of the Statue of Liberty to the United States
The nearly 10-foot tall bronze Statue of Liberty, nicknamed the "little sister," will be on display…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Activists tear down a statue of Canada's first prime minister, whose policies towards Indigenous people were later declared 'cultural genocide'
A statue of Canada's first prime minister was pulled down by activists in Montreal, protesting his …
Mia Jankowicz
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A wooden statue of Melania Trump in her native Slovenia was set on fire on the Fourth of July
The life-size wooden statue of Melania Trump stood near her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia, until it…
Sinéad Baker
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A Frederick Douglass statue in upstate New York was vandalized on the anniversary weekend of his Independence Day speech
Police in Rochester, New York, found a statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass removed from its b…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Christopher Columbus statues are being beheaded and torn down during Black Lives Matter protests
The Columbus statue in Boston's North End was found beheaded on Wednesday morning, with its head si…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Trump campaign claims the president will protect Brazil's famous Christ the Redeemer statue from vandalism and destruction
Under a photo of the iconic Rio de Janeiro statue, the Trump campaign ad said "WE WILL PROTECT THIS…
Eliza Relman
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Trump wants to use this little known law to send protesters defacing and toppling statues to prison for 10 years
The law does not apply to many statues that have been targeted, such as those honoring segregationi…
Ryan Pickrell
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Jon Stewart says he doesn't remember Republicans being mad about erasing history when the Saddam Hussein statue was toppled in Baghdad
On "The Daily Social Distancing Show with Trevor Noah", Jon Stewart lampooned Republicans' hypocris…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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'Our society is evolving': What historians and activists are saying about the movement to remove statues
Statues of Confederate leaders and other controversial figures, like slaveholders and colonists, ha…
Mark Abadi,Kevin Reilly,Katie…
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India’s ‘Statue of Unity’ is now the tallest in the world — It's twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty
That means if you’re standing anywhere within the radius of 7 kms, you’ll be able to see the st…