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Charlottesville finally took down its Confederate monuments in 2021.
The statue of Robert E. Lee was melted down.
The statue of Stonewall Jackson was given to artist Kara Walker.
This is what she did with it:
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Still thinking about "Unmanned Drone" by Kara Walker, made out of a decommissioned statue of Stonewall Jackson. Going to be thinking about it for years. My god.
The first look at the scale of Disney backlash after it suspended Kimmel. Wow>>
“Antenna estimated a total of 3 million cancellations for Disney+ and 4.1 million for Hulu in September. Both of those figures far exceeded the trailing three-month averages for the services”
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Kahlil Robert Irving's meticulous bronze replica of the streets of Ferguson. A beclowned statute of a Confederal naval commander, Matthew Fontaine Maury: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
MONUMENTS, an exhibit featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments paired with work by contemporary Black artists, opens in Los Angeles next week.
This is Karon Davis' Descendants (2025), showing her son, Moses, holding a squirming replica Confederate general
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In 2021, a violently contested statue of Robert E. Lee was finally taken down from its pedestal in Charlottesville.
In 2023, it was melted down into bronze ingots.
Its remnants are now are on display in Los Angeles, in a new exhibit called MONUMENTS: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The one of Jeff Davis is exhibited exactly as it lay after being toppled by Richmonders in the summer of 2020, paint and all. Personally, it’s one of the most impactful exhibits at the Valentine and I’m glad more people get to experience it.
A 8,900-pound statue of Stonewall Jackson from Charlottesville, which stood at the heart of recent rallies by the Ku Klux Klan and others, was taken off its pedestal and given to artist Kara Walker.
She cut it into pieces and made a new work: "Unmanned Drone"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
In 2021, a violently contested statue of Robert E. Lee was finally taken down from its pedestal in Charlottesville.
In 2023, it was melted down into bronze ingots.
Its remnants are now are on display in Los Angeles, in a new exhibit called MONUMENTS: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Kahlil Robert Irving's meticulous bronze replica of the streets of Ferguson. A beclowned statute of a Confederal naval commander, Matthew Fontaine Maury: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A toppled statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, which once stood in Richmond, Virginia, and a full-sized Dodge Charger painted like the car from The Dukes of Hazzard.
From the new MONUMENTS exhibit in LA:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
MONUMENTS, an exhibit featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments paired with work by contemporary Black artists, opens in Los Angeles next week.
This is Karon Davis' Descendants (2025), showing her son, Moses, holding a squirming replica Confederate general
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
“ “Who heals a wound that continually opens itself?”- Kara Walker www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Thank you!!
"Artist Karon Davis used her son, Moses, as the model for this sculpture of a young Black man holding a statue of a Confederate general by his horse’s tail. Descendants (2025)" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
More images of Kara Walker's reconstruction of one of the most charged Confederate monuments from Charlottesville: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Charlottesville finally took down its Confederate monuments in 2021.
The statue of Robert E. Lee was melted down.
The statue of Stonewall Jackson was given to artist Kara Walker.
This is what she did with it:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Charlottesville’s monuments, transformed, are on display in major LA exhibition. From @loisbeckett.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The @nytimes.com publishes so much excellent reporting every day.
But for a paper of record to take this approach to investigating the ICE arrest of a popular Black superintendent in a majority white state?
It is deeply, deeply irresponsible.
And then, of course, there's the fact that the popular Iowa school superintendent that ICE dramatically arrested is Black.
That's no accident. This is part of a bigger story about the attacks on Black educational leaders. How is Claudine Gay not mentioned in this story? Or "critical race theory"?
With all this reporting, and 3 journalists on the story, you'd think the @nytimes.com could have interviewed at least one or two other undocumented professionals who could offer context on Roberts' trajectory and choices.
Or what his high-profile arrest meant for other undocumented people in Iowa.
It's 2025. Dreamers have been in the headlines for a decade. The median DACA recipient is a millennial in their 30s.
75% of Dreamers were pursuing a bachelor's degree or more, per one survey.
Who's shocked that someone undocumented became a school leader?
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And then there's the characterization that a superintendent being undocumented "was counter to the image many have of undocumented immigrants. This was not someone living under the radar, toiling in a low-wage job."
Is this racist stereotype really the common belief of "many" @nytimes.com readers?
Being undocumented is not a "shocking secret."
And was Ian Roberts' bio "too good to be true?" According to this story's own reporting, he had a track record of actually delivering academic improving in struggling school systems'--including in Des Moines.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
"How could someone the government says should be removed from the country have risen to lead the public school system of a large American city?"
That's a framing for a newspaper that's just one step away from being state media. Is that what the @nytimes.com wants?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
