After years of controversy surrounding the original’s initial dumping into Baltimore’s harbor six years ago, a replica of a Christopher Columbus sculpture was placed on the White House grounds on ...
The statue of the explorer, a replica of one that protesters toppled in 2020, was placed outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
The original statue was toppled by racial justice protestors in Baltimore in 2020 and the local Italian American community raised thousand of dollars to recreate it.