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Aidin Vaziri May 7, 2021Updated: May 7, 2021, 6:59 pm
The statue of Francis Scott Key hits the ground after a group of more than 100 protestors used ropes to pull it down in Golden Gate Park on June 19, 2020. Photo: Jungho Kim, Special to The Chronicle
San Francisco city officials want to place a new public art installation honoring Black lives around the empty pedestal where a statue of “Star-Spangled Banner” lyricist Francis Scott Key once stood in Golden Gate Park.
Mayor London Breed announced plans on Friday, May 7, to install the sculpture “Monumental Reckoning” by Bay Area artist Dana King in the park’s Music Concourse by June 19.
Learn about the former slave who helped build New Haven
April 15, 2021
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A statue of William Lanson in New HavenHearst Connecticut Media file
NEW HAVEN A seminar and film discussing 19th century Black community leader William Lanson, a former slave, is being offered by Site Projects|New Haven later this month, according to a release.
The event, “The Life and Times of William Lanson: Black Freeman in 19th Century New Haven,” will be held via Zoom from 3-4:30 p.m. April 25, the release said. It is being presented by Site Projects|New Haven in partnership with CT Humanities, the New Haven Free Public Library and the city’s Office of Arts, Culture and Tourism.