Sentences with phrase «include lynching»

He also noted the early recognition of Columbus Day came as Italians faced discrimination, including lynchings.

There's a marvelous episode with a plantation owner who is played by Don Johnson and looks like Colonel Sanders, an episode that includes a lynch - mob scene that plays like a «Mr. Show» sketch.

Not exact matches

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).

It included the $ 7 million precedent - setting judgment against the United Klans of America on behalf of the mother of Michael Donald, a young black man lynched by the Klan in Mobile, Alabama.

Even though earlier reports indicated that the soldier was lynched on suspicion of being an armed robber, comments from some Ghanaians, including his wife's tribute suggest otherwise.

«These attacks have grown in magnitude and they include attacks on security services, we have incidents where military officers have been lynched by mobs, we have instances where these vigilante groups calling themselves variously; Invisible forces, Delta forces, etc. invade police stations, break into cells and release suspects because they claim the NPP members are immune to any form of arrest in other words, they are living above the law because they happen to be members of a party living in power», he said.

The seven, including an assembly member who is said to be the mastermind of the lynching and subsequent burning of a part Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama's body arrived at the Court premises at about 8:10 am Thursday amidst tight security.

This includes the belief that lynchings took place in the dark of night, carried out by men covered in white sheets, a narrative that implies that lynchings were the work of extremists, and that they were distinctly Southern in nature — regional instead of national.

His exhibitions include «Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America,» «Flophouse: Life on the Bowery,» and «NYC Sex: How New York City Transformed Sex in America.»

Rounding out the Social Realist offerings in a section of the show called «Fighting With All Our Might,» on the seventh floor, are several drawings of lynchings by artists including Paul Cadmus, Harry Sternberg, and Abraham Jacobs.

In her signature Sadean Brueghel - Daumier - Goya - Ensor style, Walker depicts more than 100 figures, including the severed head of Trayvon Martin held on a platter, hooded KKK members, a lynching, kids cavorting, Martin Luther King, and more.

These include paintings, portraits and text - based works inspired by the Palm Island Riot and the stunning 3D installation of competition surfboards, adorned with traditional combat shield designs from North Cairns on the face and excerpts from a James Baldwin's article («Unnameable Objects, Unspeakable Crimes», 1966) on the obverse, through to two extraordinary and enormous drawings «Lynching I» and «Lynching II» which, placed either side of the large picture window, eloquently emphasise the dark side of Sydney's pre-eminence as the starting point of colonisation in this country.

There was no discussion of this spring's Whitney Biennial, in New York, that didn't include the controversy over a painting by Dana Schutz, who is white, of the mutilated body of Emmett Till, a 15 - year - old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, and the protests by a group of black artists over its presence in the biennial.

It was an unusual, bold, courageous and fitting decision for the gallery to decide to include «A Man Was Lynched...» The art was displayed on the outside of the gallery in a highly visible manner in a way that was evocative of the NAACP presentation.

In 2017, the Whitney Biennial included a painting by a white artist, Dana Schutz, of the lynched body of a young black child, Emmett Till.

The initiative's contribution to the show includes an interactive video display documenting (without the use of explicit photographs) thousands of lynchings of black Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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

The show attracted ire for including painter Dana Schutz's semiabstract depiction of Emmett Till, an African - American boy who was lynched in 1955.

This week, highlights include plans for a memorial to lynching victims in Montgomery, Ala.; expansion of Alvin Ailey Dance Theater's New York headquarters; and news that an outdoor installation of whimsically painted abandoned homes in Detroit will be dismantled.

Others were lynched as well, but not nearly in the same numbers - including people of Caucasian, Chinese, Latino, and Jewish descent.

Tate Britain's new show Fighting History includes the Turner Prize - winning artist and director's 2013 work Lynching Tree on display in the UK for the first time.

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.

These historical subjects include the cultural campaigns for women's suffrage and against lynching in America, women as subjects and makers of Soviet propaganda, Tina Modotti's socialist photography in Mexico, and the government - sponsored Living Newspaper productions of the Federal Theatre Project.

Envisioned by EJI, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., the first memorial to lynching, includes a new museum devoted to the legacy of slavery.

When an entire issue has every appearance of looking like it's steered by emotionally - driven figurative lynch mobs whose goal is to achieve «climate justice» by any means possible, including negating facts from critics through character assassination, you have one very serious problem on your hands.

Examples may include Wild West - style frontier justice as well as lynching.