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Five years after its removal, new conversations are emerging about the Christopher Columbus statue that once stood outside of ...
Reimagining Columbus is proposing bringing back the Christopher Columbus statue removed from City Hall with a new riverside ...
The "Reimagining Columbus Team" has unveiled what will take the place of the city's Christopher Columbus statue that was ...
After two years of community engagement, the city’s Reimagining Columbus project is unveiling potential plans for the statue's future.
Five years after the city's namesake statue came down, Reimagining Columbus is ready to present its vision for how to display ...
A coalition of 40 Italian-American groups ripped socialist Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani as a hater and divider for wanting to take down statues honoring explorer Christopher Columbus.
The statue committee unanimously passed a motion on Nov. 10, with one member absent, that said it does "conditionally recommend the return of the Christopher Columbus statue to a public location ...
To say that Christopher Columbus is somewhat controversial is kind of like saying the planet Jupiter is somewhat large. To some, he is the "Admiral of the Ocean Sea", the heroic navigator who ...
First, county commissioners stripped Columbus Day from the paid-holiday calendar. Then, a construction crew hauled the 22-foot-tall bronze statue of Christopher Columbus from the city hall plaza ...
On June 9 in Richmond, Va.—two weeks into the protests following the police killing of George Floyd—demonstrators gathered at a statue of Christopher Columbus in the city’s Near West End.
A statue of Christopher Columbus in Providence was vandalized in 2019. It later was moved to a park in Johnston, R.I. Michelle R. Smith/Associated Press ...
After Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, the physical remains of his ships -- the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria -- remain lost. Bettmann Archive The 15th century explorer landed ...