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NYC Exhibition Celebrates Black and Brown Lives Taken by Police

Avatar photo by Faith Adiele October 9, 2022October 10, 2022

At 1-800 Happy Birthday, payphones ring periodically with loving voicemails from families and strangers, and all the dates in the show are birthdays — “there are no deathdates.”

Posted inNews

The Winnie the Pooh Painting That Scandalized the Cincinnati Police

by Car Drakes June 2, 2022June 3, 2022

Artist Magnus Juliano was the target of threatening comments after police called for the removal of his painting “Off the Pig” from the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Posted inNews

Colombian Government Exploited Doris Salcedo’s Art to Denounce Nationwide Protests

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia May 11, 2021May 11, 2021

The government’s usurpation of Salcedo’s Fragmentos installation has been viewed as the latest instance of “artwashing” by the Colombian Ministry of Culture.

Posted inArt

A Joyous, Sorrowful Archive of Birthday Messages for Lives Lost to Police

Avatar photo by Faith Adiele April 7, 2021April 29, 2021

1-800 Happy Birthday takes a simple yet ambitious approach to the epidemic of racial violence.

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Forensic Architecture and Bellingcat Map Police Brutality at Black Lives Matter Protests

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia October 30, 2020November 5, 2020

The organizations verified over 1,000 pieces of video evidence showing hundreds of attacks on civilians and journalists during this year’s demonstrations.

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How Posters Have Targeted Police Violence, From the 1960s to Today

by Lexis-Olivier Ray September 28, 2020November 5, 2020

“There’s a story behind every poster,” says Carol Wells, a former medievalist who abandoned her dissertation to devote her life to posters.

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The Los Angeles Paper That Documented Police Brutality in the 1960s and ’70s

Avatar photo by Billie Anania June 11, 2020June 30, 2022

For years, only the Los Angeles Free Press chronicled the many incidents of police violence in Los Angeles, making crucial connections between racial disenfranchisement and mass unrest.

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A New iOS Shortcut Blurs Faces and Wipes Metadata for Protest Images

by Hakim Bishara June 5, 2020November 5, 2020

The solution, innovated by software developer Noah Conk and a cohort of anonymous programmers, allows iPhone photographs to be published without revealing information about when and where they were taken.

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Online Tools and Teach-ins: Resources for Understanding Calls to #DefundtheNYPD

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell June 3, 2020November 5, 2020

If you’ve been on social media this week, you’ve likely seen growing calls to defund the police. Here are a few resources for understanding the very urgent need to reexamine and shift the role police play in our society.

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Paul Mpagi Sepuya Offers Photographs to Advocacy Organization Donors

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia June 2, 2020November 5, 2020

Sepuya is directing people to organizations like National Bail Out and #BlackLivesMatter-Los Angeles. Anyone who provides receipt for a donation of $250 and upwards will receive a print by the photographer.

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Artists Create a Mural Honoring George Floyd at the Site of His Murder

by Hakim Bishara May 29, 2020February 1, 2023

The colorful painting has become a memorial site for Minneapolis residents to honor Floyd and mourn his death.

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