The federal judge ruled that claims that nearby graves were at risk of damage were “misinformed or misleading.” The memorial has been criticized for its sanitized depiction of slavery.
A federal judge issued an injunction temporarily halting work to remove the memorial as part of the military’s efforts to take down symbols commemorating the Confederacy.
Israelis seeking to memorialize the hundreds killed in the Hamas assault on a trance festival, and help the survivors, retrieved hundreds of objects from the site.
The Houston suburb Sugar Land got its name from a business reliant on the forced labor of convicts. But efforts to memorialize those people have stalled.