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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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 ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — In 2024, Arkansas sent two new statues to the U.S. Capitol to display in the National Statuary Hall, recognizing two of the state’s most iconic figures— Daisy Bates and Johnny Cash ...

A statue of Virginia Civil Rights activist Barbara Rose Johns, who will replace Robert E. Lee as one of Virginia's two statues on display at the U.S. Capitol, is unveiled Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in ...

Statues of slave-owning Founding Fathers have represented New York in the U.S. Capitol for nearly 150 years. Now, state lawmakers want to replace one of the statues with a famous New Yorker who helped ...

“It disrupts this idea of Native people as stoic," said Jami Powell, curator of Indigenous art at Hood Museum in New Hampshire. "But also celebrates the important legacy of Billy Frank and all of his ...