Sentences with phrase «of black lives»

Because of the diversity of black lives, it would be easier to say look at the whole budget, because it all impacts on Indigenous individuals and communities.

On this episode of «By Any Means Necessary» Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon are joined by Dr. Dave Ragland, Senior Bayard Rustin Fellow at the Fellowship of Reconciliation, to talk about a new article in the Intercept highlighting the FBI and Department of Homeland Security's surveillance of Black Lives Matter activists and the long history of the FBI's efforts to divide and conquer leftist movements.

She also did a stint at Mic, helping to produce documentaries on American gun culture and The Movement of Black Lives.

After Abdi's death, Matt Skoff, president of the Ottawa Police Association, dismissed the concerns of Black Lives Matter protesters as «rhetoric.»

According to her campaign website, she is about to publish a young adult anthology featuring 48 essays from leaders describing their teenage struggles, including Patrisse Khan - Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter; teen trans activist Gavin Grimm; and Danielle Vabner, a young woman who lost her baby brother at the Sandy Hook massacre.

Think of Black Lives Matter or the Alt - Right.

It was accompanied by a film that paired footage of Black Lives Matter protests with body - cam video taken by a person walking around a dark house.

To Be Young, Gifted and Black also features works that show the duality of blackness between the hopefulness of the Civil Rights Movement and the present frustrations of the Black Lives Matter movement.

A posthumous icon of the Civil Rights Movement, his image — and this painting — now reads as totally pertinent in the context of Black Lives Matter.

The exhibition features a new series of Black Lives Matter paintings conceived by the Richmond, Va. - born artist in response to the Michael Brown and Eric Garner killings and the rallying of communities across the United States in protest of police use of lethal force on unarmed black men and youth.

Entering the recent exhibition «Vanishing Points» at James Cohan Gallery in New York, one was confronted with a large wall text — visible from the street through the gallery's glass doors — penned by a group of black women artists in the name of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Vanity Fair magazine named her as one of the leading artists of the Black Lives Matter movement.

[1] Read against the traumatic history — and current iterations — of racial terror, state violence, and surveillance leveled systematically at Black Americans throughout our nation's history, God Bless America's synthesis of flickering and fragmented sound, song, and image gives form to the restless, beautiful, subversive vibrations and tensions that underpin Black dissent in the era of Black Lives Matter.

The Inspiring Social Change conference at the Brooklyn Museum featured Charles M. Blow, Claudia Rankine, Hank Willis Thomas, reps from the Women's March on Washington, The Laundromat Project and National Black Theatre, and a discussion of Black Lives Matter.

Each of the three artists, Barron says, owe a debt to Gordon Parks, who through his photographs of black lives in the»50s and»60s became the most important documentarian of the civil rights movement.

Cullors, an artist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter, will lead a discussion after the film.

February Events @ Schomburg Center Various Dates and Times, Harlem Programming ranges from a conversation about women in the context of Black Lives Matter, explorations of the legacy of August Wilson, a screening of a documentary about Congressman John Lewis, and an author talk about the history African Americans who have cooked for U.S. Presidents, to a conversation between models Pat Cleveland and Bethann Hardison, who is also a fashion advocate.

The new exhibition revisits the original concept with contemporary photographers considering what the African American experience looks like today, after the historic presidency of Barack Obama and in the age of Black Lives Matter, alternative facts and supposed «fake» news.

But Fort Gansevoort flips the script on millennia of male - dominated athletics with art works by thirty - one women made between the mid-twentieth century and now, from Elizabeth Catlett's jubilant 1958 print of a barefoot girl jumping rope to a just - finished collage of a pigtailed boxer by Deborah Roberts, a young artist who borrows the Dadaist strategies of Hannah Höch for the era of Black Lives Matter.

Two works of art at the entrance to the exhibition signify both the specificity and capaciousness intrinsic to the unusual history of black folk art. Steven Ashby's Untitled (Hunter and Victim)(nd; collection of Robert A. Roth, Chicago) makes clear Majeed's intention to connect the art to contemporary audiences living in the era of Black Lives Matter (fig. 1).

Participants include: Kevin Michael Key (of Los Angeles Poverty Department) and Charles Wayne Porter III aka The Natural Mystic, Amanda De La Garza, Enrique Winter, Jorge Sanchez, Jamilah Sabur, Justin Allen, Ajia Hunter (host) reading her father William Wayne Hunter aka Big Brother Wayne, and Patrisse Marie Cullors - Brignac (co-creator of Black Lives Matter) and more.

SYMPOSIUM Inspiring Social Change conference at the Brooklyn Museum (Oct. 20 - 21) exploring the intersection of art and justice features Charles M. Blow, Claudia Rankine, Hank Willis Thomas, reps from the Women's March on Washington, The Laundromat Project and National Black Theatre, and a discussion of Black Lives Matter.

Reminded of the profound vulnerability of black lives in America, we watch small, mono - hued flags being pinned to polka - dotted wallpaper while the video changes colors as if to literalize seeing red (and blue, and green, and pink).

The Bowdoin College Museum Art (BCMA) will present a solo exhibition by New York - based «new media» artist R. Luke DuBois, featuring a new portrait commissioned by BCMA of Black Lives Matter and Campaign Zero activist DeRay Mckesson, who is also a current mayoral candidate in Baltimore as well as a Bowdoin College alumnus (class of 2007).

In the context of the Black Lives Matter movement, it reads as a strident and necessary response to the deadly force being wielded nationwide upon blacks by white cops.

Wallace draws on his own youth in Philadelphia to examine the effects of racism, the question of excessive force used by police, and the value of Black lives in this country.

The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in response to the killing of several unarmed black people by Police and the water crisis in Flint, Michigan are only two of countless examples showcasing how systematic racism is still alive and well in America today.

Also serving as a historical record is Bowers» Roundtable Discussion (2016) that features Patrisse Cullers (one of the founders of Black Lives Matter), Jennicet Gutierrez (an undocumented trans - immigrant activist), and CeCe McDonald (a trans - activist who served time in an all - male prison).

No longer the agony and pride of black lives alone, as with his video, they still connect the density of a familiar past to the immediacy of the present — like a proper fair.

They were encouraged to explore from the literal to the conceptual underpinnings of Black Lives Matter and to examine the impact of state and national violence on black lives, Mowinski said.

''... Walker's 40 Acres of Mules, which was made at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement... is an unapologetic reinterpretation of the famous Stone Mountain Park monument...»

ADAM PENDELTON has created a new series of Black Lives Matter paintings made with a low - tech «painting machine.»

In the era of Black Lives Matter, Brexit, and a resurgent xenopolitics in the West, the time is certainly right to wade back in to the debates.

Cauleen Smith's glittering, handmade banners, emblazoned with poetically mournful slogans in protest of black lives lost to racist violence, announce both the museum's most inclusive Biennial yet and curators Christopher Y. Lew and Mia Locks's attunement to injustices that long predate Trump's win, but that are sure to tragically intensify under his rule.

«The content of Glenn's work is incredibly meaningful in the context of St. Louis, being the epicenter of the Black Lives Matter movement,» Ms. Starke said.

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter Movement, the goal is to encourage candid conversations about being black in America and dealing with race within the advertising profession.

However, the largest contribution made by these books — fiction and nonfiction — is that they insist on the humanity of black lives.

Spring 2017 saw an impressive crop of YA novels illustrating the diversity of black lives today, many focused upon teenage girls telling their first - person stories.

Whereas, the purpose of that day, and of the subsequent activity it is hoped the day will inspire, will be to explore and grapple with the past, present, and future status of Black lives in our society, and to affirm that status as equal to, and not secondary to, the lives of others; and

It would be remiss to not mention how activists and supporters of Black Lives Matter expressed both admiration of and support for the Parkland survivors, and dismay at how powerful figures in the media, in entertainment, and in politics never afforded similar attention and support for their protests:

Hiram Rivera is a co-author of the Black Lives Matter platform.

IN THE ERA OF BLACK LIVES MATTER, the movement that has spotlighted racist policies afflicting black Americans, a new national focus on school discipline disparities has taken hold.

After all, those collaborations against the futures of black people can be seen today as black teachers, school leaders, police officers, and politicians team up with others to perpetuate the nation's education crisis and the overcriminalization of black lives.

Among the panelists were Gerard Robinson of AEI, DeRay Mckesson of Black Lives Matter, and Peggy McLeod of La Raza.

From the Ferguson uprising, to the global reach of the Black Lives Matter movement, this film gives an authoritative storytelling voice to the black Ferguson community, focusing on letting activists and local citizens speak.

Crafted from footage taken by actual citizens in St. Louis, Missouri, and Ferguson, the film takes an «unflinching look» at the uprising, the protests, and the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Comprised of images captured over multiple years, his beautifully shot film is an expansive exploration of black lives in Hale County, Alabama.

Set against the ongoing narrative of the Black Lives Matter movement highlighting racial inequality and the election of the most divisive president in recent U.S. history, Get Out, Peele has said is a «documentary.»

Take a look instead at The Hard Stop (Metrodome, 15), George Amponsah's urgent, angry investigation of the 2011 London riots in the wake of Mark Duggan's fatal shooting by police, which — not least in the age of Black Lives Matter — seems sharply of the moment in 2016.

He proceeds from the socially conscious exposé of his debut film, Fruitvale Station (unhelpfully exploited by the media in support of the Black Lives Matter campaign), to focus substantively on personal drama and individual psychology.