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A controversial Christopher Columbus statue in South Philadelphia encased in a wooden box since last year could have its makeshift shroud removed soon after a judge’s ruling Friday.

The controversial Marilyn Monroe statue, “Forever Marilyn,” returned Sunday in Palm Springs, California, years after being taken down due to controversy.

A massive “face mask” weighing 77 pounds was placed on a giant Buddhist statue in Fukushima, Japan, to pray for the end of the coronavirus pandemic.

Dolly Parton is asking Tennessee lawmakers to withdraw a bill that would erect a statue of her on the Capitol grounds in Nashville

A veteran returned a sword he stole from a statue of a Revolutionary War general 40 years ago, telling the head of the Massachusetts town’s historical commission that he regretted taking it. Cindy P. Gaylord, the chair of Westfield’s Historical Commission, said a man contacted the city hall saying he had the sword stolen from the town’s statue of...

A controversial statue featuring President Abraham Lincoln with a freed Black man on his knees has been removed from Boston’s Park Square. Boston officials decided over the summer to take down “The Emancipation Group,” a replica of a statue in Washington, after thousands of people signed a petition for it to be removed. Petition creator Tory Bullock said at...

A “living statue” titled “The Poser” was put up in D.C.’s Freedom Plaza on Friday in protest to President Donald Trump’s response to demonstrations over racial injustice. The display was created by the Trump Statue Initiative, which says it aims to allow artists to “share their point of view on our 45th President’s most notoriously self-serving, narcissistic and racist...

A statue of Christopher Columbus that had stood for more than 30 years in his namesake Wisconsin city is coming down. The Columbus City Council voted Tuesday to put the statue in storage until another use for it is found. The fiberglass statue stands at the intersection of Highways 16-60 and 151 in Columbus, a city of 5,000 about 30…

Activists and towns are left wondering what to do with empty spaces that once honored historic figures tied to racism as statues and monuments fall

Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney on Wednesday ordered the removal of all Confederate statues on city land. “We have an urgent need to protect the public,” Stoney said in a statement.

Crowds outside the Wisconsin State Capitol tore down two statues and attacked a state senator amid protests following the arrest of a Black man who was at a restaurant with a megaphone and a baseball bat.

A man was shot Monday night as protesters in New Mexico’s largest city tried to tear down a bronze statue of a Spanish conquistador outside the Albuquerque Museum, prompting the city to announce that the statue would be removed until officials determine the next steps.

The rapidly unfolding movement to pull down Confederate monuments around the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of police has extended to statues of slave traders, imperialists, conquerors and explorers around the world, including Christopher Columbus, Cecil Rhodes and Belgium’s King Leopold II.

Protesters in Bristol, UK, pulled down a statue of a prominent slave trader from the 17th century as demonstrations continued after the death of George Floyd.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago is requesting that a statue of a well-known priest be returned, months after it was removed from church property in a suburb. The statue shows the late Rev. John Smyth with his arms outstretched to a child above him. It was unveiled in 1996 to honor Smyth’s years of work at Maryville Academy in Des…

Virginia is home to more Confederate memorials than any other state. For many, they are reminders of a painful history. But a new statue in Richmond is designed to offer a different take on who should be atop a monument. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

On Monday, the USTA will unveil a statue in Althea Gibson’s honor at the U.S. Open.

Crews removed remnants of a Confederate statue from North Carolina’s flagship public university early Tuesday, hours after the school’s outgoing chancellor ordered that the empty pedestal be put into storage because of safety concerns. The University of North Carolina sent a statement around 1 a.m. Tuesday confirming that removal of the pedestal was under way at its Chapel Hill campus....

A permit to bring a 45-foot statue of a naked woman to Washington, D.C. was denied by the National Park Service.

A bronze statue of a young girl showed up near the iconic charging bull statue on Wall Street ahead of the International Women’s Day.