By Malaika Jabali ·Updated October 19, 2021
Two decades ago, New York State Assembly Member Charles Barron (then a City Councilmember) rebuked a statue of Thomas Jefferson, and the portraits of exclusively white leaders, that graced the chambers of the New York City Hall.
After a long fight, other elected officials have joined him to remove Jefferson’s 7-foot likeness— which was erected in City Hall in 1834— from the Council chambers.
Amid a year of public
