Until he finds himself shooting an unarmed
black youth during a particularly bloody demonstration.
Culled from testimony given by six
black youths during the Harlem Race Riot of 1964, Ligon's paintings create abstraction and rhythm using their words.
Not exact matches
The Committee is also expected to investigate the management of the team and events in their camp
during the tournament as well as Ghana's treatment of Ghanaian football fans who were sent to support the
Black Stars by the Ministry of
Youth and Sports.
Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios, in his most recent film Güeros, creates a vivid
black and white world that depicts the anxieties and frustrations of
youth during the 1999 student protests in Mexico City.
During a meeting in December 2010,
Black leaders gathered at CDF Haley Farm to discuss the problems
Black youth face and promising approaches.
The testimony of the Harlem Six, a half a dozen
black youth arrested for murder
during the 1964 Harlem race riots was the genesis for his latest series of text - based paintings.
NEWS In the wake of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, nationwide protests against police killing unarmed
Black men and
youth reach Miami Dec. 5, shutting down I - 95 and blocking traffic in Midtown and Wynwood
during Art Basel Miami Beach.
In addition to a new essay, illustrated chronology, and a roundtable discussion, Mark and our curatorial team selected to reprint seminal texts on the of topics of race and gender identity, foster
youth,
Black American stand - up comedy, and queer and feminist politics
during the developing AIDS crisis.
The works» title is a double adaptation: Jaar took the title from James Baldwin's seminal 1963 publication (containing two essays which highlighted the state and nature of interracial politics and relations in the United States
during the early 60's, as well as the attitude of
black Christian
youths in Harlem who were exposed to Islamic principles), while Baldwin drew his title from a Negro spiritual, «God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water but fire next time.»