Pelosi removes 4 Confederate portraits from US Capitol

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The symbolic act precedes Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the US. FMTNews

Pelosi unveils the Moving Forward Act, a bill to rebuild American infrastructure, at Capitol Hill in Washington yesterday.

“There is no room in the hallowed halls of Congress or in any place of honour for memorialising men who embody the violent bigotry and grotesque racism of the Confederacy,” the top Democrat wrote to the US House clerk Thursday requesting their removal. Protests swept the nation following the May 25 killing of African American George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

 

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