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    Nov 17, 2020 3 minutes
    by Sarah Richardson

    Making New Monuments

    to fund monuments on the American landscape relating to social justice. According to , the foundation previously put $5 million into Montgomery, Alabama’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice, built to honor lynching victims. Another $25,000 went for a memorial to an abolitionist family from Seneca Village, a community of Blacks displaced when Central Park was being built in New York City. The latest program, the Monuments Project, is the charity’s largest ever, and reflects a change of mission; the foundation now stresses

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