New York Removes A Statue Of The `Father Of Gynecology,` Who Experimented On Enslaved Black Women
(ArtsJournal)

This wasn`t a fast decision about the man who didn`t use anesthesia when he performed experimental surgeries on the women. `The removal of his 80-year-old statue comes after eight years of protests, activism and the local community collecting more than 26,000 signatures.`