Kyera Singleton, executive director of the Royall House & Slave Quarters, will be a featured guest on the WBUR online program Newsmakers, whose topic today is “Addressing the Legacies of Systemic Racism in National Monuments.” Across the south, monuments associated with the Confederacy have toppled as protests against the murder of George Floyd, police brutality, and racial injustice took over cities around the world. These moments act as catalysts by removing white supremacist imagery from the landscape and making space to reimagine how we memorialize history. Singleton will help answer the question: What can the North learn from the South in navigating this crucial moment, and how we as a country often clarify history to catch up with culture?

Online access is free, but registration is required.