The Committee for the Removal of Public Monuments has bagged its biggest trophy to date. On Sunday New York Mayor Bill de Blasio acceded to a request from Ellen Futter, president of the American Museum of Natural History, to remove the equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, that fronts…
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio backs a decision to remove the statue of Theodore Roosevelt in front of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Visitors look at a statue which includes a man in a Native American headdress. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption toggle caption Mary Altaffer/AP New York Mayor Bill de…
New York — The American Museum of Natural History will remove a prominent statue of Theodore Roosevelt from its entrance after years of objections that it symbolizes colonial expansion and racial discrimination, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday. The bronze statue that has stood at the museum's Central Park West entrance since 1940 depicts Roosevelt…
The equestrian memorial to Theodore Roosevelt has long prompted objections as a symbol of colonialism and racism.The statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside the Museum of Natural History, under police watch, will be coming down. It has drawn many protests in recent years.Credit...Caitlin Ochs for The New York TimesJune 21, 2020The bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt,…
USS Theodore Roosevelt. | U.S. Navy via Getty Images The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt got underway Wednesday after nearly two months sidelined in Guam battling an outbreak of the coronavirus, the Navy announced. The ship was set to leave Guam for the first time since March 27 with a scaled-back crew of about 3,000…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…