Rodney Leon

 is a Haitian-American architect known for designing both the African Burial Ground Memorial Monument and the Ark of Return, both of which are in New York City.

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 * The African Burial Ground National Monument serves to educate current and future generations about the extreme sacrifices and profound contributions made by enslaved African-descendant communities to the building of our great city and country. The memorial is meant to provide our ancestors with the acknowledgement, dignity and respect in death that they were not afforded in life.