Black Women Statues Replacing Racist Monuments

YES. Take the colonizers down, lift the black women up. 👏🏾Statue of minstrel show songwriter in #Pittsburgh to be replaced with a statue of black woman https://t.co/VgEG3AxM9Z pic.twitter.com/yD3CucTOGA

— Blavity (@Blavity) March 15, 2018

As debates over removing racist Confederate statues are getting more heated, two Black women will get their own monuments. A statue of a Confederate general is going down and will be replaced by one history-making Black educator at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., The Associated Press reported.

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