Is the City of Newark big enough for Washington, Columbus and Tubman, three great giants of history? We are about to find out. The New Jersey State Historic Preservation Office has sent back a plan to honor famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman, a plan that had removed a Columbus Memorial in the city’s historic Washington Park....

The Columbus Memorial, gifted by the Italian American community and installed in Washington Park in 1927, was removed in the dark of night by the City of Newark in 2021. In its place has been proposed a statue of 19th-century civil rights advocate Harriet Tubman, who shepherded hundreds of enslaved Americans to freedom via the...