From Black Hebrews preaching on 125th Street in Harlem to
media images of police brutality toward people of color, emblems of collective memory and personal history coalesce in Abney's brushstrokes.
Not exact matches
You could be looking down on Earth from a satellite or pressing your face against the television screen watching news
of the latest demonstration against
police violence, your eyes up close to the raster patterns that, from a distance, coalesce into
media images.
This runs counter to the recent proliferation in the
media of disturbing
images documenting
police violence against black bodies, which are thought to have a triggering effect on their viewers.
Artist Devin Kenny will perform If I don't laugh / Tarda..., a powerful sonic performance incorporating music and spoken word and addressing the role
of social
media in the widened access to, as described by Kenny,
images of «Black suffering that directly results from the machinations
of white supremacy the US prison industrial complex and
police state, and the aftermath
of colonialism and chattel slavery».
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 vio
Police Yesterday became a social -
media sensation as a protest
image that could signal a show
of solidarity with communities affected by
police vio
police violence.
The project investigates the range
of factors contributing to cycles
of police confrontation and incarceration, while questioning how
images of people caught in those cycles are constructed through the
media.
Stelter's guest — Democracy Now's Amy Goodman, who was charged with trespassing while reporting live on the ground — implored «all the
media» to be «there on the ground giving voice to the voiceless» and said that «all the networks» «have a responsibility» to show
images of police cracking down on protesters.
Promote a favorable
image of the Town and
Police Department by acting in a responsive and professional manner with members
of the
media, citizens and agencies.
Images of the violent protests by the Palm Island community; the imposed «state
of emergency» resulting in a military style
police operation; the removal and arrest
of 26 community members and the incarceration
of Lex Wotton who subsequently had his right to free speech removed, was extensively reported in national and international
media.