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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 ...
After two years of community engagement, the city’s Reimagining Columbus project is unveiling potential plans for the ...
The "Reimagining Columbus Team" has unveiled what will take the place of the city's Christopher Columbus statue that was ...
Five years after the city's namesake statue came down, Reimagining Columbus is ready to present its vision for how to display ...
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.
In 2022, a Columbus statue was removed from the California Capitol rotunda. Also last year, crews removed a plywood box that had been placed over a Philadelphia statue of Christopher Columbus.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When Christopher Columbus does come up in the media or the classroom, he is usually simply bashed or praised, depending on the viewpoint of the speaker. In either case, he remains more myth than man.