Instagram users can now virtually replace Confederate monuments with Black activist statues EXCLUSIVE: Activists Alicia Garza and Chelsea Miller discuss The Pedestal Project's innovative AR technology to honor contemporary Black figures. Left to right: Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and founder of Black Futures Lab; Civil Rights icon Rep. John Lewis; and Chelsea Miller, founder of Freedom March NYC. (Photo: Getty Images, Instagram/TheChelseaMiller) As Black History Month comes to a close the conversation this year, as in recent years, revolved around how to bring the discussion into the future, well past Feb. 28. Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, found a way to do just that with the launch of an augmented reality (AR) experience on Instagram that lets you place statues of racial justice leaders atop empty pedestals where confederate statues once stood.