Bryan Stevenson, a civil-rights attorney, has established the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, showcasing the history of slavery through art. The park features works by various artists and aims to highlight the experiences of enslaved and Indigenous people. Additionally, calls have been made for the return of remains of 325 formerly enslaved individuals to Africa and for the removal of monuments linked to colonial atrocities.
The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, in Montgomery, is an ambitious attempt to tell the history of slavery. It is also a feat of contemporary-art acquisition, containing works by artists such as Simone Leigh, Charles Gaines, and Nikesha Breeze. https://t.co/BoYdKz5YKm
Scraping away generations of forgetting: my fight to honour the Africans buried on St Helena. A braid from a formerly enslaved African buried on the island was the catalyst for Annina van Neel’s work to preserve and share these histories. https://t.co/wfnSPz3eJe
A descendant of the first permanent European settlers in Victoria has called for the removal or “ceremonious destruction” of monuments to her family, the Hentys, because of their links to massacres of Aboriginal people. https://t.co/SCsoSWtgsl
Descendant of Victorian colonial family calls for removal of monuments to her ancestors https://t.co/gyDmvLf7rk
The history of slavery is one of elisions and silences, of moving on. The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, designed by the civil-rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, displays the realities of enslavement on a monumental scale. https://t.co/yeEm0w3mhT
Bryan Stevenson’s Freedom Monument Sculpture Park explores the history and life stories of enslaved and Indigenous people alongside beautiful works of art by Alison Saar, Hank Willis Thomas, and others. “He’s telling stories using various artists and their practices and doing it… https://t.co/cjrdfJSiJX
Bryan Stevenson speaks to VF about the newly opened Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, which aims to re-center American history on the enslaved and Indigenous people who lived through its brutality. https://t.co/NDvPAXUsxU
St Helena urged to return remains of 325 formerly enslaved people to Africa https://t.co/kBrz4SbCde
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In Montgomery, the civil-rights attorney Bryan Stevenson has created a museum, a memorial, and, now, a sculpture park that attempts to tell the history of slavery through culture. https://t.co/3DlBCvo070