A monument of a young African-American man has found its permanent Virginia home near the confederate statue it was modeled after.
"Rumors of War," by artist Kehinde Wiley -- who painted President Obama's portrait hanging in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery -- was unveiled Tuesday at Richmond's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , according to CNN affiliate WTVR.The monument is"the artist's direct response to the ubiquitous Confederate sculptures that populate the United States," the museum said.
The unveiling was attended by Wiley, mayor Stoney and Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, the station reported. The moment had a hiccup when the tarp got stuck and needed some extra effort to be removed."This is so important in this special year, when we commemorate the 400th year anniversary of the first enslaved Africans who arrived on these very shores. We ignored this history for too long in our classrooms," Northam said."Now, we are changing, and Virginia is better for it.
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