Tag: Rushmore

  • The Mount Rushmore of Racism

    Daily Newsletter Blizzard shuts down museums in New York, Prince Andrew’s arrest photo is hung at the Louvre, a beloved hand-drawn calendar in Los Angeles, and a biography of a mountain. Can’t New Yorkers catch a break? Just when the stubborn mounds of filthy snow that haunted us for weeks finally began melting away, we read more

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  • Chipping Away at the Facade of Mount Rushmore

    Gutzon Borglum and a superintendent inspecting work on the face of Washington on Mount Rushmore on May 31, 1932 (image public domain via the Library of Congress) On July 4, 2020, weeks after Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd and many Americans began reconsidering the memorials and monuments that mythologize our national narratives, President Donald Trump read more

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    Chipping Away at the Facade of Mount Rushmore