- The Wildlife Conservation Society’s apology for its 1906 exhibition of Ota Benga, a native of Congo, comes in the wake of global protests prompted by the videotaped police killing of George Floyd.
- The very institution and men who had so ruthlessly exploited Ota Benga, and their descendants, contaminated the historical record with untrue narratives.
BBC News reviews Why a zoo took 114 years to apologize to a caged Congolese teen.
Apology from the Bronx ZooOta Benga was kidnapped from what is now...
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