Thousands sign petition to replace Confederate monument with statue of Missy Elliott
(World News UK)

A petition for a statue of rapper Missy Elliott to replace a Confederate monument in Virginia has been signed by more than 16,000 people. The author of the campaign, Nathan Coflin, said that "Missy is everything the Confederacy was not", and that he wishes to "put white supremacy down, flip it and reverse it". He said that the Work It hitmaker's likeness should...