Iowa Catholic college to remove statue of its bishop founder over slavery cruxnow.com
A private eastern Iowa college has announced it will remove a statue of the school’s founder after officials there learned new details about his slave-owning past.
Loras College will remove the statue of Bishop Mathias Loras from the Dubuque campus and place it in storage, the Telegraph Herald reported…
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