New Orleans removes first of four Confederate-era monuments, announces funding to take down the rest
 

https://media1.fdncms.com/gambit/ima...ary-viewer.jpg A few hours after construction crews began removing a statue intended to recognize "white supremacy in the South,"*Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced that the city should "truly remember all of our history, not part of it." The Battle of Liberty Place obelisk ? one of four*statues targeted for removal by the city, and what Landrieu called the "most offensive" of the four ? was the first to come down.

The statues ? which Landrieu said were "first erected as an affront to America, intended to deny the humanity of millions of Americans" ? will be moved to a city-held warehouse before they move to a museum or similar building.?