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   Six years after two stained-glass windows that honored Confederate   
   Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson were taken down,   
   the Washington National Cathedral has unveiled the pair of windows   
   that are taking their place.   
      
   The windows, titled "Now and Forever," were created by artist Kerry   
   James Marshall and center around racial justice. The images show a   
   group of protesters marching in different directions and holding up   
   large signs that read "Fairness" and "No Foul Play."   
      
   The new windows "lift up the values of justice and fairness and the   
   ongoing struggle for equality among all God's great children," the   
   Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, the cathedral's dean, said on   
   Saturday at the unveiling.   
      
   He said the previous windows "were offensive and they were a barrier   
   to the ministry of this cathedral and they were antithetical to our   
   call to be a house of prayer for all people."   
      
   "They told a false narrative extolling two individuals who fought to   
   keep the institution of slavery alive in this country," he added.   
      
   The earlier windows had been a fixture at the house of worship in   
   Washington, D.C., for more than 60 years. Created in 1953, the   
   windows pay tribute to Lee and Jackson, showcasing scenes from their   
   lives as well as the Confederate battle flag.   
      
   After nine Black worshippers at Mother Emanuel AME Church in South   
   Carolina were killed by a white supremacist in 2015, the cathedral's   
   dean at the time, Gary Hall, called for the Confederate tribute   
   windows to be removed.   
      
   The Confederate flags were removed in 2016 and the windows were   
   taken down in 2017. The cathedral also launched the search for its   
   replacement. In 2021, the cathedral selected Kerry James Marshall as   
   the artist tasked with creating racial justice-themed windows.   
   Marshall, whose paintings have been at the Met, the National Gallery   
   and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, has devoted his career   
   illustrating Black lives and Black culture on canvas.   
      
   On Saturday, the Washington National Cathedral debuted the new   
   windows, as well as a poem inscribed in stone tablets near the   
   windows titled "American Song" by Elizabeth Alexander. The poem was   
   specifically composed for the occasion.   
      
   It's not a poem and not worth reading or hearing, therefore it is   
   omitted.   
      
   https://www.npr.org/2023/09/23/1201350129/national-cathedral-   
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