Baltimore adding interpretive signs to Confederate monuments (MD)

From wire and staff reports
17 hrs ago

... Baltimore will install interpretive signs next to the city’s four Confederate monuments to add historical context.

... Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced the move Wednesday, months after a commission recommended that some of the monuments be removed.

The mayor appointed the commission last year to study the monuments. In January, it recommended that a statue of Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson be offered to the National Park Service. It also called for the removal of a statue of Roger Brooke Taney.

Rawlings-Blake says the installation of the signs is a practical solution to a complicated problem. She says removing the monuments altogether would be an expensive project ...

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