The Best Anti-Racist Monuments to Visit in America
While debate simmers over remaining tokens of the Confederacy, many inspiring testaments to progress and equality in America are educational and easy to visit.
Booker T. Washington National Monument in Franklin County, Virginia.
Photographer: Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group EditorialThe Black Lives Matter movement has forced Americans to reckon with the country’s whitewashed history—and its problematic monuments.
In recent weeks, the push to remove statues honoring Confederate leaders has accelerated in response to nationwide protests about police brutality and civil rights. In Richmond, Va., a prominent memorial to General Robert E. Lee along Monument Avenue is slated for removal, and in Manhattan, the American Museum of Natural History will lose the iconic statue at its entrance that depicts President Theodore Roosevelt towering over African and American Indian men.