For all those who were lost/For all those who were stolen/For all those who were left behind/For all those who were not forgotten. In a sacred outdoor space near City Hall in Lower Manhattan, those four sentences are etched onto a 24-foot-tall green granite monument alongside a heart-shaped Sankofa, a Ghanian symbol that means “learn from the past to prepare for the future.”

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