Sentences with phrase «lynching victims»

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.

EJI then leads visitors on a journey from slavery, through lynching and racial terror, with text, narrative, and monuments to the lynching victims in America.

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»).

Women and children cut off the ears of lynching victims as souvenirs.

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

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

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.

Protesters complained that Schutz, who is white, had no right to depict the 1955 lynching victim Emmett Till in her work.

Not exact matches

A March 16, 1891, editorial referred to the victims of the lynchings as ``... sneaking and cowardly Sicilians, the descendants of bandits and assassins.»

He describes «the largest mass lynching in U.S. history,» the victims of which were Italian - Americans, in New Orleans in 1891.

The point is that the One who is supremely revealed as a forsaken, impotent and abandoned lynch - law victim simply can not be reconciled with the catalogue of divine attributes listed in most forms of theism.

McCluskey, a prominent supporter of Corbyn, said the leader had been the victim of a «political lynching» and said it was «outrageous» that political grandees such as Kinnock were being dragged out to be part of this «unedifying coup».

In this episode meet a would - be utopia in Spain where civic life is managed on Twitter; a teacher who becomes the target of a digital lynch mob; and the father of a school shooting victim who must prove to the internet that his son existed.

Ken Gonzales documents a lynching, but with the victims taken out of the picture, leaving only the appalling crowd.

The exhibition also features EJI's plans to open a national monument in 2018 in Montgomery, Alabama, named The Memorial to Peace and Justice, commemorating victims of racial terror lynching.

Alison Saar hangs a female nude by her ankles, as the victim of a lynching, for Strange Fruit.

Mannequins by Ajay Kurian climb the stairwell, but another hangs his head like the victim of a lynching, fatigue, or shame.

Similar to Holocaust memorials in Germany or the Apartheid museum in South Africa,» The Legacy of Lynching memorializes victims and their families, while challenging complacency in the face of injustice.

-- «Speaking at a memorial to the victims of lynching, the former vice-president warned of the disproportionate impacts of global warming»

Gore in 2018: «Speaking at a memorial to the victims of lynching, the former vice-president warned of the disproportionate impacts of global warming»