News
Activists Denounce Plans to Reinstall Confederate Statue in DC
The monument of Alfred Pike was the only outdoor statue of a Confederate official in the nation's capital when it was toppled by Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020.
Black Lives Matter
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After Republican Threats, DC Begins Removal of Black Lives Matter Mural
The mural was painted in 2020 during protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd and other Black individuals.
Interview
I Was a Museum's Black Lives Matter Hire
“You think you’ve been hired because you’re the right person. But once you're inside, you realize you’re not the right fit,” says curator eunice bélidor.
News
Richmond Police Admit to Tear-Gassing Peaceful Protesters at Robert E. Lee Monument
The police department retracted its previous claims that demonstrators were “violent” as part of a settlement in a lawsuit lodged by six protesters who were tear-gassed by officers in June 2020.
News
Banksy Sold T-shirts to Fundraise for Activists Accused of Toppling Edward Colston Statue
The shirts, which feature an empty plinth and rope, have already sold out.
News
George Floyd Statue in NYC's Union Square Defaced 48 Hours After It Was Unveiled
Surveillance footage shows a skateboarder splashing gray paint on the newly-installed bust of Floyd.
Interview
How Ashley O’Shay Uplifts Black Female Activists Without Deifying Them
The filmmaker tells Hyperallergic how she spent over four years within Chicago’s movement for Black lives making the documentary Unapologetic.
News
The History of Anti-racist Protests in Brooklyn, From Abolition to Black Lives Matter
Launching on Juneteenth, the Brooklyn Public Library’s newest initiative examines six decades of Black-led activism in the borough.
Opinion
UK’s Threat to Punish Museums for Removing Colonial Statues Is Colonialism 101
The British government's new “free speech champion,” Oliver Dowden, has threatened museums with funding cuts if they remove controversial statues.
News
Need to Vent About 2020? Tell the Smithsonian Your Stories
The National Museum of American History is seeking first-person accounts for Stories of 2020, a time capsule about the whirlwind year.
Art
Watching Whiteness Shift to Blue Via Nationalist Aesthetics
Since the 1950s policing has presented itself as a “thin blue line” against disorder — a dog-whistle connecting the Civil Rights Movement to the mobility of Black people and white fears about the loss of a permanent, racialized social hierarchy.
Film
Telling the Stories of the Women Behind Chicago’s BLM Movement
The documentary Unapologetic explores the kind of activism the media tends to ignore.