Floyd family gathers to unveil hologram

The family of George Floyd witnessed the unveiling of a hologram in Virginia yesterday, where flickering lights came together to create an image of Floyd’s head and shoulders transposed over the Confederate General Robert E. Lee statue. The event in Richmond on historic Monument Avenue was the first public unveiling of the George Floyd Hologram Memorial Project. A press release says the 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 forwardthinking change.‘‘ Floyd was a black man who died after being pinned to the ground by a white police officer in Minneapolis in May, sparking protests across the country. The project’s week-long tour will take it to cities in North Carolina and Georgia mirroring the route of the 1961 Freedom Rides.