Category: removal of confederate statues

Speaker McCarthy Addresses Democrats’ Issues With Statues, Portraits

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy says he is fine with Democrat demands that statues, portraits, and other artwork depicting former Confederate politicians, military figures, and slave owners be removed from public display. “I thought they should have gone farther,” he said. The subject came up during a press briefing on Feb. 2, when a…


Statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee Removed From US Capitol Building

Virginia’s governor announced Monday that his state chose to remove the Confederate statue of Robert E. Lee from the U.S. Capitol building, adding that the statue of Lee will be replaced by a statue of civil rights leader Barbara Jones. Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, expressed his support for the removal of the Lee statue,…