Confederate Monuments Are Coming Down, Are Streets And Highways Next?
The George Floyd protests have sped-up the push to remove public art and roadways that glorify Confederate heroes and other reminders of a troubled past.
by Zachary Small
Jun 06, 2020
2 minutes
The bureaucratic red tape that normally prevents politicians from rapidly changing their cityscapes is falling away as protesters demanding racial justice insist that Confederate monuments be swept into the dustbin of history.
But more than bronze statues are being discarded. The University of Kentucky Friday that it would remove a controversial mural
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