A statue in Times Square depicting an ordinary Black woman has held up a mirror to people's attitudes about race and celebration.

David Jordan of Greenwood secured $150,000 in state funding and a Utah artist, Matt Glenn, was commissioned to create the statue ... to a grand jury of Black and white Leflore County residents ...

She was the only Black person invited ... used to make his statue of David in the early 1500s. It is still stunning now. This is the last piece of the vein of pure white statuary marble from ...

David Jordan of Greenwood secured $150,000 in state funding and a Utah artist, Matt Glenn, was commissioned to create the statue ... to a grand jury of Black and white Leflore County residents ...

A new 12-foot-tall bronze statue of a Black woman unveiled in New York ... ease of her stance is a subtle nod to Michelangelo’s David,” Times Square Arts said in a statement.