Black Ministers Want Removal of Margaret Sanger Sculpture

Black Ministers Want Removal of Margaret Sanger Sculpture

Riding the coattails of videos exposing the notorious activities of Planned Parenthood, and coinciding with Republican candidate Dr. Ben Carson discrediting the legacy of that organization’s founder Margaret Sanger, a group of black ministers is asking that the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery remove this bust of Sanger.

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Bust of Margaret Sanger from “Struggle for Justice” exhibit at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

A letter was sent by a group called “Ministers Taking a Stand” to Kim Saget, director of the Portrait Gallery, asking that the bust and all likenesses of Sanger be removed. It was written by the group’s president Bishop E.W. Jackson, a retired attorney and senior fellow for the Family Research Council; one of the signatories was Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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