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Black women stand as living monument after protesters toppled ‘racist’ SF bronze statue
Dozens of Black women have gathered in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park last week to honor Juneteenth and create an art installation comprised of living “statues” to take the place of ones ...
Mary Seacole statue vandalism investigated by Met
The memorial statue, which the trust raised money to install it in 2016, is thought to be the UK's first to honour a named ...
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This pioneering black woman journalist is finally getting the recognition she deserves
A statue of Alice Allison Dunnigan, the first black woman to be an official White House correspondent, is being erected in Washington DC. Alice Allison Dunnigan, who died in 1983, was a ...
YES! Magazine4d
Memory Crafters Preserve Black Women’s History
The legacies of Black women continue to be celebrated in named and traditional memorials, by generations of memorializers and ...
Stylist1y
Where to see the UK’s best statues of remarkable women from history
the situation is even direr for women of colour. England didn’t get its first public statue of a black woman (The Bronze Woman in Stockwell, south London) until 2008 – and that monument is a ...
Nottingham Post9d
New Nottingham city centre statue marks issue that some thought should be forgotten
The statue, "Standing in This Place," depicts two women in period costumes: an enslaved black woman working in the cotton fields and a white woman working in the East Midlands' textile mills.