Alabama sculpture park evokes history of slavery 05:45. In Montgomery, Alabama, wedged between a maze of train tracks and the river, a long-neglected plot of land has been transformed.

But we can finally, officially celebrate the end of slavery in Alabama on our newest state holiday. Happy Juneteenth. It’s been a long time coming.

On Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, current and former inmates announced a lawsuit challenging Alabama's prison labor program as a type of “modern day slavery." Dave Martin / AP Dec. 16, 2023, 6:00 AM EST ...

Alabama and 3 other states passed anti-slavery laws in election. ... Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, ... Those states are Rhode Island in 1842, ...

The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park contains art and historic exhibits. The park in Montgomery, Alabama, was created to with the aim of honestly confronting the history of slavery.

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

Current and former prisoners are suing Alabama, fast food franchisees and other beneficiaries of the state's prison labor system they say is a “modern-day form of slavery” where incarcerated ...

news National. On Juneteenth, monument dedicated in Alabama to those who endured slavery The Equal Justice Initiative created the park to tell the story of enslaved people with honesty.

The Equal Justice Initiative, a criminal justice reform nonprofit, dedicated its National Monument to Freedom on June 19, 2024, in the new Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama.

In Montgomery, Alabama, a long-neglected plot of land, wedged between a maze of train tracks and the river, has been transformed into the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park – 17 acres filled with ...

The Equal Justice Initiative nonprofit invoked the Juneteenth holiday as it dedicated a monument that honors the people who endured and survived slavery. On Juneteenth, Alabama monument to those ...