An excerpt from the NY Times -
Art That Confronts and Challenges Racism: Start Here
Our writers suggest works that illuminate and tackle issues of police brutality, social injustice and racial inequity.
By Melena Ryzik, Wesley Morris, Mekado Murphy, Reggie Ugwu, Pierre-Antoine Louis, Salamishah Tillet and Siddhartha Mitter
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice,
the Alabama museum dedicated to the history of lynching.
Credit...Robert Rausch for The New York Times
Artists and thinkers have already shown us how: Bryan Stevenson, the crusading lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, has a memoir, and a movie based on it, “Just Mercy,” that is attracting a new audience, alongside the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, the Alabama museum dedicated to the history of lynching, which embodies his life’s work. The filmmaker Ava DuVernay made the documentary “13th,” about the roots of mass incarceration, and has long been boosting independent black voices with her distribution company Array. Here, writers recommend other works that illuminate and confront racism, tracing a path, thorny as it may be, forward. MELENA RYZIK
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/arts/racism-writings-books-movies.html?searchResultPosition=1
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