At the Juneteenth festival Sunday, a new sculpture by artist Mildred Howard entitled “Delivered, Mable’s Promissory Note,” was unveiled outside the Ashby BART station on the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Adeline Street. The sculpture pays homage to her mother, the activist Mable Howard, who led the 1960s movement to underground the BART line in order to avoid dividing the largely Black neighborhood in South Berkeley, according to a Berkeleyside report. Howard chose to utilize the inherent “symbolic and economic value” of these objects in the construction of the monument in order to “memorialize the unsung contributions of the African-American community” and to create a “tangible metaphor for the wealth they worked so hard to build,” due to their displacement and gentrification, according to her email statement. Read more through link in bio. ✍️: Emily Hamill | emilyjordynn 📸: Maxine Eschger | maxineeschgerphoto . . . #dailycal #berkeley #juneteenth #bart