A hologram showing George Floyd was projected in front of a Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia.
The George Floyd Hologram Memorial Project aims to"transform spaces that were formerly occupied by racist symbols of America's dark Confederate past into a message of hope, solidarity and forward-thinking change," according to the news release.
In the coming days, the hologram will also appear where former Confederate statues stood in Georgia, North Carolina and more, mirroring the route of the 1961 Freedom Rides, as a"symbolic call to continue the fight for racial justice," the news release said. "We going to put our foot on the pedal and we're going to take care of business because if we stop now we'll never get finished," Floyd's brother, Philonise Floyd, said Tuesday.
The tribute in front of the Robert E. Lee statue comes over a month since Virginia Governor Ralph Northam was
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