As racially insensitive statues of Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and others came tumbling down in 2020, they left empty pedestals.
Racial justice organization Color Of Change has a plan for those spaces this Black History Month. An augmented reality project envisions them being topped with racial justice leaders, the late U.S. representative John Lewis, Freedom March NYC co-founder Chelsea Miller and Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza.
The pro-bono effort was created in partnership with BBDO New York, which enlisted Black sculpture artist Spencer Evans to create authentic representations of each activist—2D sketches were then turned into 3D-renderings using CGI technology.

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