Community members designed clay tiles reflecting on what liberation means to them.
BUILDING A SENSE OF PRIDE
CLAY TILES OF LIBERATION
Cooke John permanently embedded these tiles as part of a new monument to legendary Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman. Mayor Ras Baraka says the decision to highlight Tubman was in line with a 5-year-old campaign to rethink who sits upon pedestals in this mostly black and brown city.