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Restored Tennessee Rep. Pearson charts progressive path
Read more: Restored Tennessee Rep. Pearson charts progressive pathTennessee Rep. Justin Pearson never guessed he’d be expelled for leading a gun control protest on the House floor after a deadly school shooting. Nor did he predict that he’d be propelled into the national spotlight, placing his state at…
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Lil Baby “The Bigger Picture”
Read more: Lil Baby “The Bigger Picture”Lil Baby, a popular American rapper, released a song titled “The Bigger Picture” in 2020 in response to the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests that took place following the murder of George Floyd by a police officer. The…
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The Harlem Festival of Culture
Read more: The Harlem Festival of CultureThe Harlem Festival of Culture not only pays homage to the past but also envisions a brighter future. It serves as a platform to showcase the rich diversity and dynamism of Harlem’s artistic community, while also acting as a catalyst…
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Chile’s protest street art
Read more: Chile’s protest street art“The walls of the streets of downtown Santiago are covered with stickers, art, words and posters. The messages are varied and range from “Feminist power” to “All cops are bastards”. They have taken over the walls of Zona Cero (Ground…
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Mile-long bus museum honoring children killed by gun violence heads to Ted Cruz’s Texas home
Read more: Mile-long bus museum honoring children killed by gun violence heads to Ted Cruz’s Texas homeArticle written by Katy Barber: A mile-long procession of school buses are headed to Sen. Ted Cruz’s home in Houston on Thursday, July 14. Thursday’s roll-out is the official start of The Yellow Bus Project and Cruz’s house is the…
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In Tamir Rice’s death, artists found inspiration to carry on his legacy
Read more: In Tamir Rice’s death, artists found inspiration to carry on his legacySamaria Rice, left, and Terrence Spivey welcome the crowd at the Tamir Rice Sweet 16 event to raise funds for a new youth oriented cultural center Thursday, June 14th, 2018, at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo…
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2020 Was the Year of Protest Music
Read more: 2020 Was the Year of Protest Music2020 was the year of when protest music blared everywhere. For a long period, Black people struggled against police brutality and in the uproar of George Floyd’s murder, BLM protests instantly swept over the country. Of the many protest music…
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The Great Migration Series
Read more: The Great Migration SeriesNational Public Radio (NPR): There’s no historical marker outside Jacob Lawrence’s childhood home in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. But Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has an idea of what it might…
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The Story of Let Hair Down and her confrontations with the NYPD
Read more: The Story of Let Hair Down and her confrontations with the NYPDKanami Kusakima, also known as the woman who dances in Washington Square Park with the long black hair and the paint, was happy to allow the Mayor’s Office of NYC use her image as a promotional tool for a “post-coivd”…
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Tamir Rice legacy shows how artists can sensitively engage with racially charged history
Read more: Tamir Rice legacy shows how artists can sensitively engage with racially charged historyCLEVELAND, Ohio – Dana Schutz, the acclaimed New York artist who trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art, famously stirred controversy at the 2017 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art with “Open Casket,’’ her painting depicting Emmett Till’s…