No Traveling for New York's Columbus Statue, Mayor Decides

No Traveling for New York's Columbus Statue, Mayor Decides

The New York Times, 1.12.18

Richard Alba, a commission member, said the Columbus statue was an "acid test" for the panel because "you had directly opposing meanings brought to the statue by different groups of people." The commission also recommended that the statue remain but that explanatory material be added. "I think that, as well as it can be done, that the commission threaded the needle on what was a very fraught question," said Mr. Alba, a sociology professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The commission's report said that there were dissenting opinions on the panel.

*Also ran in WRAL.