The sculpture park is the third site created by the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala., which is dedicated to taking an unflinching look at the country’s history of slavery, racism and ...

Art, text and artifacts tell unflinching stories about slavery at Montgomery park Freedom Monument Sculpture Park reclaims the narrative of Black history in the United States. Credit: Equal ...

Alabama sculpture park evokes history of slavery 05:45. In Montgomery, Alabama, wedged between a maze of train tracks and the river, a long-neglected plot of land has been transformed.

The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park contains art and historic exhibits. The park in Montgomery, Alabama, was created to with the aim of honestly confronting the history of slavery.

When Bryan Stevenson first saw artist Simone Leigh’s sculpture Brick House at the 2022 Venice Biennale in Italy, he saw his grandmother. “The first thing I wanted to do was run and embrace it ...

EJI’s sculpture park has built upon their existing work, delving into the legacy of slavery and the lives of those who were enslaved," Montgomery Chamber chief destination officer Ron Simmons said.

Bryan Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, has spent much of his career studying how slavery has shaped American life. But until 2021, he had never visited a plantation.

The sculptures were not intended as a tribute to the slaves of the Middle Passage Created in 2006, the underwater sculpture, "Vicissitudes," is not about the Middle Passage, the portion of the ...

Digital art maestro Marcus Brown has used augmented reality software to produce the ghosts of 41 enslaved people who mark the place that Solomon Northup, author of “Twelve Years a Slave,” was ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Visitors to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park wind a serpentine path past art pieces depicting the lives of enslaved people in America and historic exhibits, including ...