President Samuel Hoi was featured on Baltimore's local National Public Radio (NPR) station, WYPR 88.1 on October 3, 2017, and offered recommendations for what to do with the vacant sites of Confederate monuments.
Renewed attention was brought to this matter following the violence at Charlotte, Va.'s white nationalist rally on August 12, 2017. Many government officials, including Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House Democratic leader, have called to remove statues, markers and other monuments that celebrate controversial Civil War era figures from public grounds. There are likely hundreds of such monuments in the United States.