the Confederacy https://illinoisfamilyaction.org Sat, 18 Jul 2020 11:55:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-download-32x32.jpg the Confederacy https://illinoisfamilyaction.org 32 32 76203252 Tear All The Statues Down? https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/07/tear-all-the-statues-down/ Sat, 18 Jul 2020 09:00:01 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=14751 Written by Dr. Paul Kengor

Last weekend I overheard two recent grads (both musicians) discussing America’s greatest composers. The usual names were raised: Copland, Gershwin, Bernstein, Sousa … Foster.

“Who?” said one.

“Stephen Foster,” replied the other.

Only one knew who Foster was, and neither knew he was from Pittsburgh. Both, ironically, recently spent a lot of time in Oakland, where the Stephen Foster statue once stood outside the Carnegie.

That statue, depicting Foster above a banjo-strumming Black man, representative of his song “Uncle Ned,” was removed in April 2018 after a contentious debate.… Continue Reading

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