A statue in Times Square depicting an ordinary Black woman has held up a mirror to people's attitudes about race and ...

Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah argued in a lengthy Twitter thread on Monday that the "grotesque" Martin Luther King Jr. statue, which was designed by a Black artist, represented "White ...

Supporters praise the 12-foot bronze figure as a bold celebration of Black women, particularly plus-size women, in a public space long dominated by statues of white men. One X post cheered ...

When a 12-foot statue of a Black woman hit Times Square, the internet lost its mind. Was the outrage about the art, or who it ...

The Times Square website noted that the large Black woman statue is not one ... while embodying a quiet gravity and grandeur." The statues of historic White men in Times Square are of Father ...

Facing north, she towers over two statues of white men — Catholic priest Francis ... plain clothes with a vacant stare and undoubtedly Black facial features. Her ease is meant to give a ...

It was also intended to serve as a contrast to other sculptures, in particular two pedestaled monuments of white ... the statue, garnering thousands of likes and hateful comments. “Fat black ...