Johnny Cash hits US Capitol as state replaces statues
(Artdaily.org)

Music legend Johnny Cash will be immortalized with a statue in the US Capitol as his native state of Arkansas replaced divisive figures associated with white supremacy. Each US state sends two sculptures to the Statuary Hall, a grand gallery leading to the Capitol`s Rotunda, and the century-old representatives of Arkansas have become increasingly controversial amid a nationwide push to bring down symbols of the racist Confederacy. Arkansas announced that one of its two statues -- traditionally in white marble -- would depict `Man in Black` Cash, whose songs of outlaws, prisoners and his own spiritual journey, sung in a forbidding baritone to a hard-edged country guitar, made him an icon across genres. Cash, who died in 2003 in Nashville, will be joined in the Statuary Hall by Daisy Bates, a crusading African American civil