The “African Renaissance” statue during its construction in August 2009. (via Wikipedia) On April 3, the West African nation of Senegal officially inaugurated one of the strangest statues in the ...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's University of Cape Town removed a statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes on Thursday to cheers from students, a symbolic move that exposes persistent racial ...

Rosa Parks: First Statue of African-American Female to Grace Capitol Feb. 27, 2013 -- intro: Rosa Parks, the civil rights pioneer, made history again today by becoming the first African American woman ...

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YONKERS, New York -- Community leaders in Yonkers unveiled the new Enslaved Africans Rain Garden on Friday. The five life-sized sculptures overlook the Hudson River. They tell the story of enslaved ...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. — A life-sized statue of a local African American icon was unveiled in York County on Friday. The William C. Goodridge Freedom Center and Underground Railroad Museum hosted a statue ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Soaring above the Dakar skyline, the nearly finished monument to the African Renaissance in Senegal's capital is billed as a symbol of Africa's rise from "centuries of ignorance, ...

All in The statues can be gargantuan -- the African Renaissance Monument in Dakar is nearly 40 meters high (160 feet). They commemorate liberation heroes and independence movements and resemble the ...

Durban's giant bronze statues of Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo, still wrapped in plastic, have become unlikely festive-season punchlines and a lightning rod for anger over service delivery. Critics ...