Sentences with phrase «lynching trees»

«Black bodies were spectacles in slave markets and on lynching trees and whipping posts.

«Black Christians believed that just knowing that Jesus went through an experience of suffering in a manner similar to theirs gave them faith that God was with them, even in suffering on lynching trees just as God was present with Jesus in suffering on the cross.»

The Cross and the Lynching Tree (and The Warmth of Other Suns) helps fill in those blanks.

And I finally got around to reading The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone, which was just as shattering and powerful and informative as I'd been told.

CNN: America's «angriest» theologian faces lynching tree James Cone, who once called himself «the angriest theologian in America,» is still angry.

In the post, he recommended A Different Mirror, Between the World and Me, The Cross the Lynching Tree, Divided by Faith, Just Mercy, Let Nobody Turn Us Around, More than Just Race, The New Jim Crow, The Warmth of Other Suns and Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria.

To those who exchanged the cross of Christ for a lynching tree or police brutality, Jesus says get out.

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.

Not exact matches

They beat him, and lynch him from a tree, but they don't do a good enough job, and he miraculously survives.

But Jena, population 3,000, is a backwards, backwoods Louisiana town, and when three nooses were found swaying from the tree the very next day, the African - American community complained to anybody who would listen that the hanging ropes amounted to a hate crime given The South's sinful legacy of lynching.

Young black females fare no better, such as Kurt's daughter (China Anne McClain) who wonders whether «we get to hang ourselves» at the sight of a tree swing she mistakes for a lynching rope.

I had a thought, and half of it is not very pretty - as much as the tree is symbolic - growth, roots to your past - earth and new beginnings - the tree is the instrument of death - lynching - a bittersweet comparison and the ideas just came to me, so I am throwing it out there.

A black man hanging, lynched, from a tree branch and a white man soundly asleep beneath the covers form the motif of this wallpaper by Robert Gober.

Torkwase Dyson's abstract wall painting «Strange Fruit (Dignity in Hand)» (2015) brings the question of violence and the black body to the forefront in a title inspired by one of Billie Holiday's signature songs, which describes the «strange fruit» of lynching victims hung from trees («blood on the leaves and blood at the root»).

Like much of her work, the drawing is both beautiful and disturbing: here, in grotesque, cartoonish monochrome, is the blackjack tree, the lynched woman spilling blood, her assailants laughing as she dies.

The song, popularized in the 1930s by Billie Holiday, protests the atrocity of lynching: «Southern trees bear a strange fruit, / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, / Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze, / Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.»

Cronin gathered hundreds of articles of women's and girls» clothing from around the world to represent three specific tragedies: brightly - colored saris symbolize two Indian girls who were kidnapped, gang - raped, and lynched from a tree at the edge of their village; hijabs signify 276 Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in 2014 — over 200 of whom still remain missing; and gray and white aprons & uniforms symbolize those worn by «fallen women,» in forced labor at the Magdalene Asylums and Laundries in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the U.S.

The position of the tree renders it ineffective for lynching and the mirror forces gallery viewers to see themselves together as a community.

Popularized by singer Billie Holiday, the series title Strange Fruit comes from a poem by Abel Meeropol, who wrote the infamous words «Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze; Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees» after seeing a photograph of a lynching in 1936.

Found in Louisiana while scouting locations for 12 Years a Slave (and ultimately featured in the film), the tree is surrounded by graves of those lynched there.

Visiting artist and 2017 Guggenheim Fellow Paul Rucker, whose exhibition REWIND is on display in the York College Galleries until October 21, is returning by popular demand for an encore performance in DeMeester Recital Hall (beside the York College Galleries in Wolf Hall) on Saturday, October 7 at 7:00 p.m. Stories from the Trees is a multi-disciplinary performance with Paul Rucker performing a live soundtrack on cello to re-imagine vintage lynching postcards that have been animated.

The exhibition is Biggers» first museum presentation in New York, and it will also mark the Brooklyn debut of Blossom (2007), a large - scale multimedia installation that incorporates references ranging from lynchings to Buddha's enlightenment under the bodhi tree.

The tree, which has the graves of lynched victims around the base, features in the film, during a scene where two runaway slaves are hanged.

In Biggers» work, the tree suggests multiple, divergent ideas and references, some of them horrifying, such as lynchings and other race crimes that the 1930s song movingly protested.

Cronin gathered hundreds of articles of women's and girls» clothing from around the world to represent three specific tragedies: brightly - colored saris symbolize two Indian girls who were kidnapped, gang - raped, and lynched from a tree at the edge of their village; hijabs signify 276 Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in 2014 — over 200 of whom still remain missing; and gray and white aprons & uniforms symbolize those worn by «fallen women,» in forced labor at the Magdalene Asylums and Laundries in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the U.S. Moving from the marble alters and sacred architecture of Venice's sixteenth - century Chiesa di San Gallo to the secular gallery context of FLAG, Cronin will present the same three fabric sculptures, here piled on top of their shipping crates to now address human trafficking as well as human rights issues.

Of course there have been terrible crimes against members or suspected members of the LGBTQ community, and it might be fair to draw an analogy between some of those specific crimes, but not the American black civil rights struggle, not school segregation and bombing of churches, not the lynchings where in some places in the south any old tree may have been the site of a murder.