Dana King

King uses historically generalized and racist ideas that require in-depth researches, to provide information on the normative misrepresentation of Black peoples' emotional and physical sacrifices.

[1] King also won an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award in March 2005 for her reporting on the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide.

[9]" Throughout her art career, King is known for her sculptures and community projects that revolve around the goal of portraying a political message.

She believes sculpture provides an opportunity to shape culturally significant memories that determine how African descendants are publicly regarded and remembered.

[4] She believes that the African descendants deserve public monuments of truth that radiate their powerful, resilient, and undying endurance created from a Black aesthetic point of view.

"[12] This mural project was made possible by King who donated the space from the building she owns at East 12th Street and 13th Avenue.

These 350 sculptures, each four feet (1.2 meters), represent the first Africans kidnapped from their homeland in Angola and sold into chattel slavery in Virginia in 1619.