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A controversial mural at the center of a lawsuit at the University of Kentucky remains in place, nearly two decades after students began calling for its removal.
The mural located in Memorial Hall depicts Black workers, possibly enslaved laborers, planting tobacco and a Native American man holding a tomahawk. Plans to remove the mural were announced in 2020, in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a Minneapolis man killed by police…