Someone’s racist past has finally caught up to him.It was reported by the LA Times that the new owners of Hollywood & Highland, DJM and Gaw Capital Partners, are dismantling a pair of white elephants at the center in a move to cleanse itself from the racist legacy of D.W.
Griffith.The elephants, which are an homage to a set from Griffith’s 1916 film Babylon, are being removed as part of a larger set of redesigns by the company to better cater a newer, younger audience.
Architect and head of redesign David Glover of Gensler said the center needs to “pivot and transform away from being a hub of transaction to a hub of culture.”Griffith, son of a Confederate army colonel, was a film director most well-known for Birth of a Nation (1915) and
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