Our inherited monumental landscape in the United States is bleak. Molly speaks to two people changing that: Paul Farber, the executive director of the Philly-based Monument Lab, which is helping birth a new generation of monuments across the country, and Michelle Browder, an artist and activist whose work includes a sculpture honoring the sacrifice of the enslaved women experimented upon by the so-called “Father of Gynecology,” J. Marion Sims.

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