The barrier between white Brentwood and the Black neighborhood of North Brentwood, before it was torn down. A steel guardrail with orange and white diagonal stripes stretches across a quiet residential street, mounted on short posts and fully blocking the road. The asphalt is cracked, with weeds growing near the rail. Trees line both sides, and houses are visible on the far side.

A memorial sculpture marking the removal of the barrier that divided white Brentwood from the Black neighborhood of North Brentwood. Two large dark bronze forearms and hands rise out of a concrete base from opposite sides. They meet in the middle and grip a salvaged section of the original guardrail, holding it up at a steep angle toward the sky. The left hand grips the lower part of the rail in a closed fist. The right hand grips higher up, with its thumb pressed along the rail. The rail is weathered white metal with faded orange diagonal stripes. The sculpture stands in a brick-paved plaza under a bright blue sky, with trees in yellow and green fall leaves, a wrought-iron fence, a shed, and a house in the background.