A statue of civil rights leader Mary McCleod Bethune was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol on July 13, marking the first time a state-commissioned statue representing a Black American would be on display ...

A watch party is being hosted online Wednesday morning as the U.S. Capitol Statuary Hall unveils a new marble statue of a Central Florida icon Mary McLeod Bethune — the founder of Bethune-Cookman ...

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WASHINGTON -- Whatever Kevin Kresse's next artistic piece may be, he knows it will be hard to top having a statue in the U.S. Capitol. Kresse, of Little Rock, learned three years ago he had been ...

Starting Tuesday, the U.S. Capitol will display a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...

We are your children too.'” The Johns piece is part of the National Statuary Hall Collection at the Capitol, in which each state can contribute two statues. The other statue representing Virginia is ...