NEW YORK CITY -- The New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously Monday to move a controversial 188-year-old statue of Thomas Jefferson from the City Council chambers a City Hall.

The New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously Monday to move a controversial 188-year-old statue of Thomas Jefferson from the City Council chambers a City Hall.

The statue of Jefferson Davis toppled by protestors in 2020 was packed up and shipped off to a Los Angeles Museum on Tuesday.

“Edward Valentine’s Lost Cause statuary, including the Jefferson Davis statue, really did a lot of harm here in Richmond,” ...

Community leaders have been trying to remove the Jefferson statue for decades, and the latest battle came during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement in June 2020, after City Council sent ...