April 16, 2024

AndronETalksNews

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Thomas Jefferson statue removed from City Hall after 187 years

New York Post

 

Thomas Jefferson is no longer in the room where it happens.

Art handlers packed up an 884-pound statue of Jefferson in a wooden crate Monday after a mayoral commission voted to banish the likeness of the nation’s third president from City Hall, where it’s resided for nearly two centuries — because he owned slaves.

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