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The Washington National Cathedral Plans to Replace Confederate Images with Themes of Racial Justice. Why Did it Take So Long?
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The Washington National Cathedral Plans to Replace Confederate Images with Themes of Racial Justice. Why Did it Take So Long?

Black American artist, Kerry James Marshall, has been tapped to design new stained-glass windows at the Washington National Cathedral to replace former Confederate imagery.

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In 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said that “the most segregated hour in this nation is Sunday at 11:00 a.m.” King’s quote was in reference to the point of the week in which Christian church services were held and the irony of sanctuaries all across the country being rife with racia…

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