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Monumental

Monumental

The landscape of public memory is shifting. As we re-examine the plaques in our parks and sculptures on our streets, we grapple with what to do with them. Once we learn the stories these objects tell about who we are, will tearing down statues and renaming schools be enough?Monumental interrogates the state of monuments across the country and what their future says about our own. In this 10-episode series, host and author Ashley C Ford and a team of audio journalists from around the country will piece together the complex stories behind some of the thousands of monuments that exist in every corner of the U.S. Listen to Monumental weekly on Mondays beginning October 30, 2023.For more information about Monumental, visit our website at www.prx.org/monumental

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The landscape of public memory is shifting. As we re-examine the plaques in our parks and sculptures on our streets, we grapple with what to do with them. Once we learn the stories these objects tell about who we are, will tearing down statues and renaming schools be enough?Monumental interrogates the state of monuments across the country and what their future says about our own. In this 10-episode series, host and author Ashley C Ford and a team of audio journalists from around the country will piece together the complex stories behind some of the thousands of monuments that exist in every corner of the U.S. Listen to Monumental weekly on Mondays beginning October 30, 2023.For more information about Monumental, visit our website at www.prx.org/monumental

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8hr 29min
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Monumental interrogates the state of monuments across the country and what their future says about our own.
Thumbnail for "Boston’s Tribute to Chinatown’s Everyday Heroes".
Immigrant Workers Get Their Due
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Monuments of the Future
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Stone Mountain and Xernona Clayton
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Pearl Harbor National Monument and Honouliuli National Historic Site
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Federal Hall and the African Burial Ground in NYC
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Esther Hobart Morris statue
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Wilmington 1898 Monument and Memorial Park
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Santa Fe Soldier's Monument, Bosque Redondo Memorial at Ft. Sumner Historic Site
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Birth of the New World and the Mabuhay mural
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George Floyd Square and The Emancipation Group

Boston’s Tribute to Chinatown’s Everyday Heroes

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November 20, 202345min 57sec

Sometimes it’s hard to know which came first – monuments or the stories we tell about who and what is heroic. And for the powerful people who get to choose, it’s usually people who look like them. But what if the hero or the subject of a monument isn’t an individual but a group or a community? What does that kind of monument look like and how might it change how we see ourselves? In this episode, we look at how a new monument in Boston is honoring not just one momentous occasion or one notable person, but the wider legacy of the Chinese-American community and the generations of immigrant labor that helped build this country.