‘A Racist and a Traitor’: Black Congresswoman Pushes Back Against Trump’s Plan to Reinstall Confederate Statue with a Bold Counterproposal of Her Own
In June of 2020, at the height of Black Lives Matter protests nationwide, demonstrators toppled and burned a statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike near the District of Columbia police headquarters. The demonstrators wrapped two ropes around the statue to pull it down, then doused it with lighter fluid and set it on fire on…
