At the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, a band of activists—primarily from indigenous-rights groups—had slung ropes around the neck of a statue of Christopher Columbus and pulled it down ...

Cue pigeon jokes. This is a story about statues. First things first. When I agreed to write about statues, I really didn’t know what the heck I was going to write about. How often does the ...

A week later, the Grant Park Columbus statue was removed, to the cheers of people who said monuments to Columbus are insults ...

A member of the cultural group suggested the Sons of Italy in upstate New York, and the private group agreed to accept the statue. It was re-installed in July 2024 and rededicated two months later ...

Condemning what he calls "selective censorship," Ald. Anthony Napolitano also is criticizing the city's refusal to remove from the city-owned Cultural Center a puppet display display titled ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A decapitated statue of Columbus is seen at Christopher Columbus Park in Boston ...