At 3:00 p.m. today, the Blank Slate: Hope For a New America exhibit will be placed at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The monument, a Wi-Fi enabled interactive work of art made collaboratively by renowned Ghanian sculptor Kwame Akoto-Bamfo and artist Brendan Burke, has been touring since 2021 as a bold counterpoint and challenge to the more than 2,000 Confederate symbols still on display in public spaces across the United States.

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