South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse ... a dozen ...

NHPR is honored to commemorate Black History Month with special programming reflecting on the African American experience.

The capital of Virginia, and the former capital of the Confederacy, is a target-rich environment when it comes to statues of southern Civil War figures ... Richmond’s African-American mayor ...

This experience was to see the statue of Man o' War at the Kentucky Horse Park ... only two jockeys were African American. Jockey Henry King's 10th place finish in 1921 marked the last African ...

As anti-racism protests continue into their sixth week across the country, statues ... American history. Many of the Confederate memorials in the spotlight today were built long after the Civil ...

The new statue includes 62 names, with four more still to be added, but it has much more meaning. The memorial has ... representing the folded American flag. A Civil War bugle also sits on ...

But the location in the northeast quadrant of the grounds between the African American history monument and the Spanish American War ... sculpt the statue. Watson also sculpted the memorial ...

It’s the Isom Clemon Civil Rights Memorial Park ... park will feature a bronze statue of Isom Clemon, along with plaques honoring his contributions to African American labor in Mobile and ...

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse ... a dozen ...