This half hour documentary reflects on the controversial Frank Rizzo monument and mural in the aftermath of their removal in June 2020. Interviews include artists and public art stakeholders who were ...

The popular meme creator Saint Hoax, who has three million Instagram followers, defines a meme as a piece of media that is repurposed to deliver a cultural, social or political expression, mainly ...

Blue Collar Conservativism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics, by Timothy Lombardo (University of Pennsylvania Press) R ecent controversies over public statuary have mostly concerned ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The battle over the controversial Frank Rizzo statue is now heading to court. The statue of the former Philadelphia mayor and police commissioner was removed from Thomas ...

The Frank Rizzo statue may have been removed from public display one month ago, but that doesn’t mean that the saga surrounding the Frank Rizzo statue is over. Far from it.

The people who raised the money to put a statue of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo near City Hall say they want it back now that it has been removed. Amid rumors it might be melted down ...

Recent protests have finally ousted longstanding local monuments to Rizzo. The 1978 documentary Amateur Night at City Hall draws out a history of resistance to his brand of white authoritarianism.

But in an interview Thursday, the US president falsely attributed that quote to a "very tough mayor," Frank Rizzo of 1970s Philadelphia, to whom he has often been compared.

Frank Rizzo Mural Removed From Italian Market Crews began painting over the mural in the Italian Market neighborhood shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday and completed the task in about an hour’s time ...

The mural’s removal came four days after the controversial 9-foot Rizzo statue was hauled away from the Municipal Services Building in Center City, where it became a focal point of protests.