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Hailed for her rich depictions of California history and social struggle, the Chicana artist says the attention, after decades of being overlooked, surprises her.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday hinted strongly that she plans to ignore a controversial recommendation from her own monuments committee to permanently sideline statues of Christopher Columbus in Grant and Arrigo parks and remove the Balbo Monument in Burnham Park.

“I’ve been very clear. I do not believe in erasing history. I think you’ve got to put it in a proper context. I think you’ve got to honor the entirety of that history,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday.

A monolith situated in a downtown Lawrence park was the ancestral Kaw Nation prayer rock. Efforts are underway to return it to the Kaw.

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Ald. Nick Sposato (38th), who served on the 30-member committee, said the outcome was pre-determined by the makeup of the committee.

Building on a field-wide audit in 2021, four new Monuments Project grants expand our expectations of what monuments can be.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka announced that the city received major funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Audible for the new Harriet Tubman Monument in Washington Park.

The Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project grant will go toward funding the Williamsburg Bray School Project, which aims to preserve, relocate, research and restore the Bray School.

The Bray School is believed to be the only remaining colonial school building that was created to educate Black children.