The labels were quietly added in October, after three years of protests from Decolonize This Place, a group urging institutions to acknowledge how marginalized people were represented. The museum consulted with outside experts but not the protest group. It has asked the museum to re-evaluate other exhibits and to move a statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside the building. “That has a Native figure and an African figure subjugated to a Roosevelt president, on a horse,” Mr. Husain said. Last year, focus turned to a statue of a 19th-century surgeon who conducted experimental operations on female slaves.

Source: New York Times March 21, 2019 09:33 UTC