In an overnight operation, workers removed Baltimore’s high-profile statues linked to the Confederacy, using cranes and trucks to haul away monuments that honored Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Roger B. Taney, author of the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott opinion. “It’s done,” Mayor Catherine Pugh said Wednesday, according to The Baltimore Sun. “They needed to… Read More »

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