The City of San Francisco, where Vice President Kamala Harris started her political career, is set to evaluate roughly 100 monuments to determine whether they should be removed or replaced.
The Gunma Prefecture of Japan last week removed a memorial to Korean victims of Imperial Japan’s forced labor policy during World War II.
The Biden administration’s National Park Service (NPS) has backed down from a plan to remove the statue of William Penn from the site of his historic home at Philadelphia’s Welcome Park. The NPS claims that the plan was “released prematurely.”
The National Park Service, under President Joe Biden, has announced that it intends to remove the statue of William Penn from Welcome Park in Philadelphia — the historic home of the founder of Pennsylvania, and an important early colonial figure.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a bill to authorize building a monument on State Capitol grounds to babies aborted under Roe v. Wade.
Arkansas lawmakers passed a bill authorizing a monument on State Capitol grounds to the unborn babies who lost their lives to abortion during the era of Roe v. Wade.
Poland has demolished four so-called ‘Monuments of Gratitude’ to the armies of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) as part of an ongoing decommunisation programme.
Edinburgh’s municipal government has been condemned for a slapping a Black Lives Matter-inspired plaque on one of the Scottish capital’s most iconic monuments, accusing the statesman it commemorates of personal responsibility for “more than half a million enslaved Africans cross[ing] the Atlantic.”
Tory grandee and David Cameron’s former right-hand man George Osborne has backed the BLM radicals who destroyed Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom rewarded the mob who destroyed a statue of St. Junipero Serra at the state Capitol last year by signing a bill Friday to replace the vandalized monument with one that honored California’s indigenous tribes instead.
Leftist statue smashers in Canada toppled the statue of Sir John A MacDonald and doused Queen Victoria in red paint over the weekend.
A far-left extremist group have desecrated a memorial to soldiers who fought in the First World War in Hamburg, painting over parts of the monument to make it state “Germany must die”.
An English church will create an “educational area” for the former slave trader who became a clergyman and abolitionist, and wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace”, after the Church of England had ordered a Black Lives Matter-style review of all of its memorials for “contested heritage”.
Donald Trump announced his plan to build a monument to the greatest Americans in history in July 2020, when leftist radicals were vandalizing statues and monuments of famous Americans.
The city of Placerville, California, known as “Old Hangtown” since the days of informal justice among miners during the Gold Rush, will replace the noose in its municipal logo after a unanimous vote by the city council on Tuesday evening.
The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) voted unanimously on Tuesday to reverse a controversial decision earlier this year to rename 44 schools, including those named for presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.
A stone bust of Queen Elizabeth II has been decapitated in Canada, with its severed head nowhere to be found.
Students at the University of Washington (UW) are demanding that the school remove a statue of George Washington, claiming that its existence “perpetuates white supremacy.” Washington, the first U.S. president, is the namesake of both the university and the state it is located in.
Churchill College at the University of Cambridge hosted an online talk in which academics claimed that Winston Churchill was a white supremacist and the British Empire “far worse” than Nazi Germany.
The police chief who stood back and did nothing as Black Lives Matter activists ripped down a historic statue in Bristol, England, during lockdown has received a medal in the New Year Honours.
A statue of Abraham Lincoln was defaced over the weekend at San Francisco’s City Hall, the latest assault on the 16th president, who is also known as the Great Emancipator for his role in leading the Civil War and ultimately abolishing slavery.
The director of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has been fired after signalling her approval when an “anti-colonial” art collective destroyed a bust of the founder of the academy, King Frederick V.
Vandals who defaced a statue of British war hero Sir Henry Havelock with the words “racist” and “parasite” have been let off with a caution and a £450 charge towards cleaning costs.
President Donald Trump has had one of the most consequential first terms of any president in American history.
City workers are trying to repair the damage vandals did to a statue of former Washington Gov. John Harte McGraw that has stood in downtown Seattle for a century.
Rioters toppled statues of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt in Portland and smashed windows at a nearby history museum.
The University of Missouri has installed a $20,000 acrylic case to protect Thomas Jefferson’s original headstone from potential vandalism.
House Republicans launched an investigation into Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposal to rename or remove historical monuments such as the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial.
Civil rights leader Bob Woodson said Tuesday that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s consideration of removing iconic American monuments and symbols is dangerous and can lead to “dark places,” as a similar approach did during the French Revolution.
A D.C. committee issued a report recommending the removal, relocating, or contextualizing of a number of the Washington monument.
Students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, are calling for the removal of a 70-ton landmark boulder on campus because it had a racist nickname in the early 20th century.
CNN’s Jake Tapper offered a rare on-air correction Tuesday of an erroneous statement he made the night before, claiming that Donald J. Trump Jr. had defended Confederate statues in his speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC).
CNN’s Jake Tapper falsely claimed that Donald Trump Jr. said “keep the Confederate statues up,” but he spoke about the Founders and defending “monuments.”
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he would donate his salary for this financial quarter to the National Park Service.
A new poll has revealed that an overwhelming majority of college democrats support the removal of statues of America’s Founding Fathers. Students around the nation have launched campaigns that call for the removal of campus statues of American icons such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Only four percent of college republicans agree.
For Democrats, a Biden win would mark the success of a strategy they launched in 2016: to frighten the public about Donald Trump, deny his legitimacy, and remove him from office.
The Worcester, Massachusetts, city council has voted against a proposal that would move the Christopher Columbus statue, which sits outside Union Station.
Chicago Police Department officers showed footage Tuesday of last weekend’s attack on a statue of Christopher Columbus in the city, in which rioters armed with projectiles used “peaceful” protests as a cover for attacks on police.
The Conservative government of Boris Johnson has rejected a petition to protect Britain’s statues and monuments, saying they are “satisfied” with the supposed protections already in place.
The community in Kansas City, Missouri, came together on Saturday to show support and clean up a statue of a fallen officer after 150 protesters from the night before allegedly vandalized it.
