Black Lives Matter – The Adventures of a Young Savage

October 16, 2017March 19, 2018

Consider Jazz

Sketch I drew of a trumpeter that later became something else.

white people love
Black art
Black music
Black poetry
Black performance. Continue reading “Consider Jazz”

October 16, 2017March 19, 2018

MLK was killed, Beware the Day

6:05 P.M. on Thursday, 4 April 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. lies struggling for life on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee after being shot in the face with a sniper rifle. Photo by Louw, a young South African photographer and filmmaker Joseph Louw, who was working on a documentary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, and was staying 3 doors down from King. He rushed outside to help when he heard the shot, and there was nothing he could do, he began taking pictures.

MLK was killed.

And people went into uproar.

They cried in anguish because they realized he was a Black man who didn’t deserve to die. Continue reading “MLK was killed, Beware the Day”

October 16, 2017March 19, 2018

A Tale of Two Vigils

Timothy Caughman, a Black man, was slain in New York City by a white supremacist from Baltimore. Two communities gather to honour Caughman in very different ways.

I went out to take pictures.

People gather to remember in Hampden (where the white supremacist murderer lived) to remember Timothy Caughman.

Continue reading “A Tale of Two Vigils”