“It’s much more healing than it would have been in 2019.”

Virginia state Sen. Jennifer McClellan, the head of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commission, regarding the installment of The Emancipation and Freedom Monument after the past year with COVID-19, the murder of George Floyd and the racial reckoning. The monument, which replaced the statue of Robert E. Lee that was removed from Richmond, Va., earlier this month, makes its debut after several of the largest Confederate statues have been removed. (NPR — September 22, 2021)