Year: 2017

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered a 90-day review to “look at all statues and monuments that in any way may suggest hate or division or racism, anti-Semitism, any kind of message that is against the values of New York City.”

Monuments to the Confederacy should not necessarily be removed from the public square, but “should be a teaching point on how good intentioned people can become so blind in their views that blood is shed,” a former governor of Georgia said.

A Georgia state lawmaker is introducing legislation to create a state commission on historic monuments.