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The statue of Robert E. Lee and other confederate statutes in Richmond, Virginia, which was removed last year, will now be handed over to the local Black History Museum. The announcement was made last week by Ralph Northam (Governor,…

A prominent statue of Christopher Columbus in Mexico City will be replaced by a memorial honoring indigenous women, according to city authorities. On Sunday, Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced the plans for the…

A toppled slave trader statue in Bristol has been put on a museum display, sparking controversy in the art community. The statue in question belonged to Edward Colston, a 17th-century merchant who was involved in the Trans-Atlantic Slave…

A recently unveiled mural about police by the Detroit Institute of Arts faced backlash for being “pro-cops”. Last weekend, the DIA posted the images of the newly unveiled mural on social media. The work, titled To Serve And Protest, was…

The City of London Corporation has decided to remove the statutes of two politicians who were said to have some links with the slave trade. The first statute belonged to William Beckford who was the Mayor of London twice in the late 18th…

A memorial dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta Scott King is approved to be unveiled by next fall in Boston Common. The memorial has been designed by artist Hank Willis Thomas along with a team of architects from…

After the abrupt departure of its chief curator last years, Guggenheim Museum has finally found a replacement in Naomi Beckwith. In art circles, Naomi Beckwith is already a known name. She has been serving as a senior curator at the…

Months after toppling a statue in Bristol, England, four people have been charged for the act. In June this year, the statue of 18th-century slave trader Edward Colston was toppled in Bristol by Black Lives Matter protestors. Though no…

Merely a day after the toppled slave trader statue in Bristol was replaced by artist Marc Quinn's "A Surge of Power", it was removed by the city administration.  Black Lives Matter protests emerged in June across the US after…