(This content was created with the help of AI.) Charlottesville’s toppled Robert E. Lee statue isn’t coming back—but its bronze is about to get a second act.
Years after white supremacists rallied around the monument and the city took it down, a local nonprofit has nearly finished a competition to turn the melted metal into new public art meant to unify, not divide, per the Washington Post.
Swords into Plowshares, which secretly melted the statue in 2023, has narrowed almost three dozen proposals to three finalists, all drawing on the remaining bronze ingots owned by the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, WVIR reports…