Big City: Statue of Doctor Who Did Slave Experiments Is Exiled. Its Ideas Are Not.
Moving a monument to the controversial 19th century doctor, J. Marion Sims, from Central Park to a Brooklyn cemetery does not wipe out the racist past it immortalizes.
Big City: Statue of Doctor Who Did Slave Experiments Is Exiled. Its Ideas Are Not.
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