To commemorate #Juneteenth, we’re looking at powerful artworks in our gallery “Divided States of America” that call for social change…
#EmoryDouglas, the former Minister of Culture and Revolutionary Artist for the Black Panther Party, helped define the aesthetics of protest during the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
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#DavidHammons’s “African American Flag” evokes both the American flag and the Pan-African flag adopted the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League founded by activist Marcus Garvey in 1914.
#MelvinEdwards made “The Lifted X” in 1965, the year of the assassination of Malcolm X, the establishment of the Black Arts Movement, and the Watts Rebellion. Edwards’s defiant work is both a memorial and a monument to the struggle for racial equality.
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