17-03-2024 17:53 via socialpsychology.org

An Alabama Sculpture Park Evokes the Painful History of Slavery

Source: CBS News - U.S. NewsIn Montgomery, Alabama, wedged between a maze of train tracks and the river, a long-neglected plot of land has been transformed. It's now home to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, the vision of lawyer and social activist Bryan Stevenson. The 17-acre park, set to open this month, is filled with nearly 50 sculptures by world-famous artists like Kehinde Wiley, Simone Leigh, and Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, collectively evoking the history of slavery in...
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