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A Monument Honoring Brooklyn Abolitionists Stalls Under Scrutiny
Activists say a proposed project is too abstract for a time when Black New Yorkers are eager to see figures that look like them among the city’s statues.
Willoughby Square Park, where the city intends to erect a monument to Brooklyn’s abolitionists.Credit.Aundre Larrow for The New York Times
By Zachary Small
Jan. 25, 2021
When the artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed was commissioned to conceive of a project honoring Brooklyn abolitionists, she wanted to turn the idea of a monument on its head. She proposed to reinvent the design of the anticipated Willoughby Square Park in Downtown Brooklyn with pavement engravings and bronze placards, which would offer questions and prompts to highlight the borough’s antislavery movement and its legacy. ....

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