Sentences with phrase «images of lynching»

Blacks looking at the images of lynching victims took heart from Jesus» suffering on the cross and his resurrection, Cone said.

In addition to interviewing leading legal scholars and activists, like Angela Davis, DuVernay said she reviewed about 1,000 hours of archival footage, including of images of lynchings, cellphone videos of police abuse, and The Birth of a Nation, the 1915 D.W. Griffith film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan (and was screened at the White House for President Woodrow Wilson).

One could compare this work to Adrian Piper's 1989 work titled Free # 2, which includes an image of a lynching.

Noah Purifoy's work amasses found objects — chair - casters, pipes, shoe lasts — into mysterious totemic structures that tap into a vein of traditional African belief that runs deep in American culture, while Betye Saar brings a chilling political twist to the form with the likes of Sambo's Banjo, where she dangles the image of a lynched man inside a «Sambo» banjo case.

The artist's «Erased Lynchings» series is based on archival images of lynchings that occurred between 1850 to 1942.

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Screenshots of the account shared on social media showed messages with racial slurs, a calendar invite for a «daily lynching» and old images of African - American lynchings.

If the divine mystery is present in a special way among the poorest and most misused of his or her children, as the biblical images and stories — from the slaves in Egypt to the official lynching of Jesus — constantly remind us, then allegedly religious people who insulate themselves from the city are putting themselves at considerable risk.

Jesus» trial is portrayed with the iconic image of early - 20th - century lynchings in the American South.

The canvas, based on open - coffin photographs of the 1955 lynching victim, speaks to the images» power to address race and violence.

These images — of a lynching, of soldiers, of men high on horseback subsumed by dense jungle — are fleeting, and the exerted effort necessary to see them creates a sense of violent voyeurism.

His image displayed in the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., is called «Strange Fruit,» after the Billie Holiday song about lynchings of African - Americans.

Despite its short run, A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday became a social - media sensation as a protest image that could signal a show of solidarity with communities affected by police violence.

In past installments of his «Erased Lynching» series, he has used found images and archival materials to revive forgotten horrors.

Some well - known works are included, such as Robert Gober's pale yellow wallpaper for a youngster's bedroom, its pattern alternating images of a peacefully sleeping white man with a lynched black man; and, Kerry James Marshall's elegy to the murderous 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., his hometown, when he was 7.