How Artists Have Championed Black Liberation
Miss Rosen, Dazed
June 2020
The fight for Black Liberation did not begin with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Mike Brown, or the 1,274 of the Black men, women, and children killed by police officers since 2015. It did not begin with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, or the Black Panther Party, all systematically targeted for destruction by the US government. It did not begin with the death of Emmett Till or the 4,743 lynchings that occurred in the United States between 1882-1968. […]