Protest erupts outside Stonewall National Monument after Trump admin strips ‘trans’ and ‘queer’ from LGBTQ on website
LGBTQ people protest At Stonewall National Monument after the Trump administration stripped LGBTQs of “T” and “Q”; The Stonewall Monument celebrates the riots by gay people in June 1969 against a police attack in Greenwich Village. References to queer and transgender people have been removed from the website for the monument as part of President […]
Transgender references removed from Stonewall National Monument website
The word “transgender” and all references to trans people are clearly acts of adhering to President Trump's new federal gender policy, and the National Park Service website for New York City's iconic Stonewall National Monument has been deleted from. In addition to the fact that transgender people are no longer listed on federally run websites, […]
Biden designates national monument at site of notorious Native American boarding school
President Biden on Monday officially designated the site of a notorious boarding school for Native American children as a national monument and formally apologized for the practice of forcing children into such schools. . Introducing Biden at the White House Tribal Nations Summit, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American Cabinet member confirmed by […]
John Lewis monument replaces Confederate statue in Decatur | FOX 5 News
Decatur has a new monument honoring late Congressman John Lewis. DeKalb County and the City of Decatur spent four years … source
Johnny Cash monument unveiled on Capitol Hill: ‘Embodies the American spirit’
Johnny Cash will now be saying “Hello Out There” to countless visitors to the U.S. Capitol after congressional leaders gathered to unveil a statue of the legendary musician. Tuesday's ceremony was attended by hundreds of people and included Republican and Democratic party leaders, along with Cash's family. The statue is the most recent to be […]
Bronze statue of Georgia Congressman John Lewis replaces more than 100-year-old Confederate monument
A giant bronze statue of the late civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis has been installed in Decatur, Georgia, where a Confederate monument was removed in 2020. The Confederate monument is a stone obelisk erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908. It has become the subject of protests against police brutality following […]
Georgia statue of John Lewis installed to replace Confederate monument
A massive bronze statue of the late iconic civil rights leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed in the town square on Friday in the exact spot where a controversial Confederate monument stood for more than 110 years before being removed in 2020. Workers slowly maneuvered the 12-foot-tall statue into place under the watchful […]
Lightning strikes Washington Monument in electric video | FOX 5 DC
Electrifying video on a visitor’s phone captured the moment lightning struck the country’s most recognizable obelisk: The … source