Tuesday Spotlight, ADVISORY

EDITORS:

The following story will move Monday as this week’s Tuesday Spotlight, a feature showcasing the best off-the-news enterprise in the AP report:

RACIAL INJUSTICE-BLACK SOLDIERS MONUMENT

BOSTON — Amid the national reckoning on racism, an unlikely monument is facing scrutiny: a Boston memorial to one of the first Black regiments of the Union Army during the Civil War. Long considered one of the nation’s finest examples of public art, the Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Massachusetts Regiment Memorial was popularized in the movie “Glory.” It prominently depicts the white commanding officer on horseback with his Black soldiers walking in the background. By Philip Marcelo. UPCOMING: 950 words, photos.

The AP