Abolitionist Harriet Tubman was honored Thursday with a monument in Newark, New Jersey.

The 25-foot work replaced a Christopher Columbus statue that the public condemned amid a wave of social justice activism in 2020, according to CNN . The site itself was renamed last year from Washington Park to Harriet Tubman Square.

The wood-and-steel monument was designed by architect Nina Cooke John and is partially made of ceramic tiles from locals, according to The Guardian . A listening wall inside has audio vignettes about Tubmans life, narrated by Newark-born musician and actor Queen Latifah .

Cooke John, who also recorded local stories to use in the installation, told NJ.com that the Tubman accounts, written by Newark author Pia Wilson, aim to connect the stories of the past to the stories of today.

The memorial itself is named Shadow of a Face, after a line from Runagate Runagate , a 1962 poem by Robert Hayden that references Tubman.

Thursdays unveiling was attended by Newark Mayor Ras Baraka . The mayor made mention of George Floyd , the unarmed Black man whose murder by Minneapolis police in 2020 spurred months of protests and widespread reappraisals of figures like Columbus whose exploitation, abduction and enslavement of Indigenous people is a matter of historical record .