Just after 2 a.m. on July 30, 1916, a freight car loaded with TNT exploded at a munitions depot on Black Tom Island in New ...
Titled “Grounded in the Stars,” the 12-foot-tall figure is the work of British sculptor Thomas J. Price and depicts an anonymous African-American woman dressed in everyday attire and posing with what ...
There are hundreds of statues in New York City. But once you remove the ones in which female figures represent Liberty, Freedom, etc., just five sculptures depict actual historical women. (In case you ...