Plan To Move Lenape Chief Statue Paused
For nearly 30 years, a statue of the Lenni-Lenape leader Chief Tamanend has stood at a busy intersection in Old City, next to the on-ramp to I-95 South. Now, a plan to move the monument to a more accessible location has stalled after one Indigenous group equated it with “forced removal.” Host Trenae Nuri talks with Frank Kummer, reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer, about the conflict over relocating the statue and why historical monuments continually spark controversy in our city.
Read Frank’s reporting here.
For more on the William Penn statue removal reversal, check out this link.
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