Teddy Roosevelt equestrian statue to be removed from NYC’s Natural History museum

City officials have agreed to a request by the American Museum of Natural History to remove a statue of Theodore Roosevelt that stands in front of the museum’s main entrance on Central Park West. The city-owned statue depicts Roosevelt — the 26th president — riding a horse as a Native American man and an African warrior walk alongside him. Museum officials decided to remove the statute “because it explicitly depicts Black and Indigenous people as subjugated and racially inferior,” Mayor