Sentences with phrase «lynchings by»

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.

... 3,000... 5,000 Lynchings by KKK, etc. (Since 1882)... 4,733... 4,733 9/11 (2001)... 2,996... 2,996

103,536 1,033,000 9/11 (2001) 2,996 2,996 Afghanistan War (2001 - present) 57,774 77,774 Lynchings by KKK, etc. (Since 1882) 4,733 4,733 Siege of Jerusalem (70) 1,100,000 1,100,000 Serbian War (1992 - 1995) 96,667 96,667 Arab - Israeli Wars (1945 - 1995) 92,000 92,000 Lebanese Civil War (1975 - 1990) 130,000 250,000

«He couldn't have been more supportive of making sure we got convicted the murderers of the last black man who was lynched by the Klan,» said former Justice Department attorney Barry Kowalski, who worked with Sessions.

I guess too many blacks were lynched by the whites before.

People burned as witches, blacks lynched by Christians in this county, people killed in human sacrifices, servants killed to accompany pharaohs on their journeys to the afterlife, untold numbers of people killed in various cultures because they were deemed to have offended God in some way, and so on.

During our conversation, he spent more time decrying rioting and calling for calm and prayer than lamenting the modern - day lynching by law enforcement of innocent black bodies that are piling up across the nation.

A lot of those things haning under bridges are black people who were lynched by bigoted holy rollers who used their version of the «holy bible» to justify slavery.

Nowadays F1 drivers get lynched by the press over the tiniest things but back in the day, racing drivers got away with a whole lot worse.

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.

Commotion soon started as shield was made in order to secure Senator Tinubu from been lynched by senator Melaye.

The officer whose name has been given us Captain Maxwell Mahama was lynched by residents on suspicion of being an armed robber.

Capt. Mahama was an officer of the 5th Infantry Battalion, and was said to have been on his daily jogging routine on Monday when he was lynched by some residents of Diaso.

«I've lost one of my fine officers who were detailed to come here on official duty protecting lives and properties, only to be lynched by the same community he is supposed to be protecting.

«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.

Mistaken for an armed robber because he had a pistol on him while going on jogging, the army officer was lynched by men, women and children.

The first was his own Officer Nanka Bruse who was attacked in the office of the President, the flagstaff house, this officer was nearly lynched by Npp invisible forces and the video evidence was widely circulated but the IGP has refused to even comment on it.

Charles Kennedy is the latest liberal to be lynched by the right - wing press.

Capt. Mahama, who was deployed to the Denyira - Obuasi community in the Central Region region together with his colleague military officers to wage war on illegal mining, was lynched by residents of the area after they mistook him for an armed robber.

Capt. Mahama was lynched by residents of Denkyira - Obuasi on Monday after he was mistaken for an armed robber.

Tony Okafor A mathematics teacher at the Community Secondary School, Isuofia in Anambra State, Chiadikobi Ezeibekwe, and his family members narrowly escaped being lynched by some angry youths in their Agba village, Ekwulobia, in the Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State penultimate week, when news filtered that the teacher had secretly married his 17 - year - old -LSB-...]

Major Mahama, then a captain in the military, was lynched by some residents of Denkyira - Obuasi who mistook him for an armed robber, while on a routine morning fitness run.

A Ghana Armed Forces Captain on detachment duties at Diaso in the Central Region has been lynched by the youth...

The late Major Mahama, an Officer of the 5th Infantry Battalion at Burma Camp, was on duty at Dankyira - Obuasi, when on May 29, he was lynched by some residents, who allegedly mistook him for an armed robber because he had a pistol in his back pocket.

A 60 - year - old trailer driver, Lawal Bankole, was weekend, almost lynched by a security guard, Abdullahi Muhammed, at Iya Abiodun area, Ifo, Ogun State, after he was...

Captain Mahama was lynched by some residents of Denkyira - Obuasi in the Upper West Denkyira District of the Central Region, when he was allegedly mistaken for a robber.

But when his true identity is discovered by one of the gang members (William Norton Bailey), Carter and Adams turn the tables on Ken, who is in grave danger of being lynched by an irate citizenry.

The scene in which the Smith character is about to be lynched by rednecks should have been funny - but it is just lame.

Your heroine, Celine Caldwell, is biracial and the plot involves a lynching by the Ku Klux Klan.

But they still expected black people to move off of the sidewalk when a white person passed by, and to keep their mouths shut after a black person was lynched by a white mob.

Jack Shainman has hung Dread Scott's «A MAN WAS LYNCHED BY POLICE YESTERDAY» flag above the gallery, referencing the iconic Jim Crow era NAACP flag.

FLAGS HAVE PROVEN to be a powerful medium in contemporary art, from David Hammons's «African American Flag» (1990), which sold at Phillips auction for more than $ 2 million, to Dread Scott's «A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday» (2015) displayed last summer at Jack Shainman Gallery, and Nu Barreto's «Desunited States of Africa» (2010) flag on view last month at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

PERFORMANCE > Artist Dread Scott joins protestors in Union Square demonstrating against police killing black men, bringing a huge black flag, holding it aloft for all to see the words emblazoned on it in white: «A Man Was Lynched By Police Yesterday.»

In March, a small group of protesters blocked Dana Schutz's painting in the Whitney Biennial based on open - coffin photographs of the mutilated body of Till, the teenager who was lynched by two white men in Mississippi in 1955.

Despite this, one painting in particular is causing righteous furore: Dana Schutz's Open Casket (2016) crudely depicts the mutilated face of Emmett Till, a 14 - year - old African - American male brutally abducted and lynched by white supremacists in Mississippi on 28 August 1955, whose murderers were all acquitted.

«A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday.»

Now installed at MUAC, the piece is centred around a silent, black - and - white film that narrates the story of a migrant family who is lynched by the community to which they've migrated — a timeless scenario which, according to the artist, metaphorically points to the breakdown of the state, and the rise of vigilante justice.

A cow by Gerhard Richter and wallpaper of a lynching by Robert Gober come a good dozen rooms before Cow Wallpaper.

A black flag by Dread Scott bears the white words A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday, and the word yesterday rings out loud and clear.

Burning African Village Play Set with Big House and Lynching by Kara Walker.

The words emblazoned on the it, A MAN WAS LYNCHED BY POLICE YESTERDAY, are an allusion to a similar flag that hung in the 1920s and»30s above the Manhattan headquarters for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Dread Scott's flag work A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday is now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, California, and is in the process of being acquired by the Whitney Museum in New York.

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.

Dread Scott, A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday, 2015, as it hung outside Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.

Your piece «A Man Was Lynched By Police Yesterday» got a lot of attention after it went up outside the Jack Shainman Gallery.

The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans has chosen to fly Dread Scott's flag, entitled A Man Was Lynched By Police Yesterday, as an acknowledgement of lives being taken in our communities, as an invitation to a public dialogue, and as a sign of hope that history can be articulated, transcended, and put in the service of education and healing.

The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans has chosen to fly Dread Scott's flag, entitled A Man Was Lynched By Police Yesterday, as an acknowledgement of... Read more

In an article considering provocative art created in response to the recent spate of police - related killings and focusing on a flag bearing the statement «A Man was Lynched by Police Yesterday» by artist Dread Scott, the New York Times Race / Related team published an article that asked «Does this Flag Make You Flinch?»

Flying above Jack Shainman's gallery in NYC is a flag by the artist Dread Scott that reads: A MAN WAS LYNCHED BY THE POLICE YESTERDAY.

A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday is an artwork that refers to and really visually references a flag that the NAACP used to fly from their national headquarters.