The plan to fund a monument to honor Black Marylanders who fought in the Revolutionary War has been approved by the state’s Board of Public Works.

The Board of Public Works is made up of Governor Wes Moore, Treasurer Dereck Davis and Comptroller Brooke Lierman.

At Wednesday’s meeting, Lt. Governor Aruna Miller sat in for Moore, and spoke briefly before the vote on the project was taken. Miller noted the monument would be placed on the grounds of the Maryland State House saying, “these are Black patriots who fought for freedom that they were denied.”

Miller said the project is “about justice long overdue.”

She also noted the monument would be “the first memorial on any of the country’s 50 statehouse grounds that fought in the Revolutionary War.”

The monument would be placed on the side

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