Monumental Reckoning (Juneteenth 2021)

https://www.monumentalreckoning.org/

San Francisco, Golden Gate Park Music Concourse
Artist: Dana King https://danakingart.com/
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Representing the first Africans stolen from their homeland and sold into chattel slavery in 1619, Monumental Reckoning presents 350 ancestral sculptures that encircle the vacant plinth of the slaveholder Frances Scott Key which was partially toppled by protesters last Juneteenth. Creating a sweeping through-line from America’s original sin of 250 years of slavery, to the evolution and imposition of a brutal and pervasive color-based caste system, to this moment of racial reckoning across America.

Adjacent to this creative, work of fearless examination, the universal beckoning of ‘LIFT EVERY VOICE’ will be installed above the historic Spreckels Temple of Music in honor of the civil rights champion James Weldon Johnson, author of the defacto Black National Anthem 'Lift Every Voice and Sing’ as part of his 150th birthday which falls on Juneteenth this year and Monumental Reckoning’s true-telling of America’ history.

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Monumental Reckoning Public Ceremony
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