There was a story about taking down a Christopher Columbus statue, too.

Thing is that CC was one of those figures who was actively arguing for the rights of the indigenous people, but couldn't gain any traction. He was no saint, but when it comes to subjugating humans, he was clearly arguing against that. So we have a problem with the rose colored glasses when looking back at our own history.

Thomas Jefferson famously owned slaves and while he freed them, it was in his will... after he died... so pretty much a mixed message, there.

Al Jolson is another example of someone history has shat upon. He was a famous blackface actor from back when that was a thing. What gets lost is how hard he fought to get equal pay for black people in Hollywood and how he argued many times to not be hired to work in blackface, but to hire a black person for that role.