The New York-born artist Michael Bailey, per the Whitney’s description, based this painting on diagrams of a ship carrying abducted Africans to the Americas that were published in 1780 by an English abolitionist group. No need to imagine it. This is how they did it.
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We Are World Central Kitchen
The fact that a convoy of World Central Kitchen workers – a flagless, borderless non-profit with a focused mission to help feed humans in moments of crisis – was stomped out of existence, that peace seeking was snuffed so cavalierly, cannot be ignored. All they do is help, boots on the ground, everyone everywhere, without […]
Juneteenth ❌ MMXXI
So tomorrow’s Juneteenth. Ish. Corporate America is giving millions of American workers Friday off, in observance of June 19 on Saturday. Juneteenth marks the day in 1865, when Texan slaves learned they had been freed, two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863. I expect that […]
