Ricky Alderete pleaded guilty to stealing a Jackie Robinson statue from a park in Kansas. He faces more than 19 years in prison.
Police quickly ruled out racism as motivation.
A monument celebrating the love and legacies of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King has risen in Boston—the city where the two first met.
A statue honoring Henrietta Lacks’ contributions to medical research will rise in her hometown of Roanoke, Virginia.
A statue of trailblazing activist and playwright Lorraine Hansberry has risen in Washington, D.C.
A statue commemorating the life and legacy of trailblazing abolitionist Harriet Tubman was unveiled at Philadelphia’s City Hall.
Hip-hop legend LL Cool J was honored with a statue in Queens, New York.
Philadelphia unveiled its first statue of a Black girl inspired by 1930s athlete Ora Washington.
The University of Chicago recently unveiled a statue in honor of African-American scholar, Dr. Georgiana Simpson, the school's first Black woman PhD graduate.
