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After weeks of heated debate among elected leaders and members of the community, Greenville County Council members refused Tuesday to award a $7,500 grant to promote the Wings of the City sculpture exhibit.
The decision came after several speakers at Tuesday s meeting offered starkly contrasting assessments of the nine bronze sculptures by acclaimed Mexican artist Jorge MarÍn that were placed in Falls Park and the Peace Center in April. Their comments met with both applause and jeers from different groups in the council chambers at County Square.
Carolyn Watson, a retired art history professor at Furman University, described one of the sculptures as an avatar of a bloodthirsty deity.
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Nearly 100 people in Greenville helped commemorate the 100th anniversary of a Black community wiped away by racial violence.
The Tulsa Race Massacre happened on May 31, 1921 in the Greenwood district of Tulsa Oklahoma.
The Community Remembrance Project of Greenville County (CRP) hosted a Centennial Commemoration of the massacre Monday outside of the Phillis Wheatley Community Center in Greenville. We know we ve got to tell this story because this is neither the first or the last incident where Black bodies were massacred in the name of racism and white supremacy, said Jalen Elrod, chair of CRP s research committee. We ve seen this happen in Orlando, in Tulsa, in Orangeburg, and in Charleston almost six years ago.