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Calling all visual artists for the East Dearborn Downtown Development Authoritys (EDDDA) Art of Courage: Black Lives Matter 360 Exhibition, to be held February 8, 2021 February 8, 2022, to be held virtually, as well as in the Connector at City Hall Artspace and outside on the adjacent public grounds of City Hall Park in Downtown Dearborn, MI.

Throughout history artists have been compelled to reveal and challenge the social conflicts that existed during their lifetimes which have left indelible impressions of change and progress. Art of Courage: Black Lives Matter 360 Exhibition continues that tradition by inviting artists to lend their visual voices to the issue of police violence and racial injustice and unrest in African American communities across the nation that has been sparked by the Black Lives Matter Movement.

This exhibition is one of a series of events developed by the EDDDA to address the broad impact of systemic racism in cities such as Dearborn where African Americans are not the majority population. It will comprise works from a variety of visual art mediums, in addition to educational programs, a series of artists talks and lectures.

EDDDA Board Chairperson Julia Kapilango remarks, I enjoy seeing artists of all mediums teaming up to produce such innovative and transformational experiences that match what our nation is feeling and thinking. I am grateful for our boards support and leadership.

Non-refundable $15 fee to Rozenia Johnson via CashApp at $Sonofu, or via Square Reader

Brief bio with up to eight (8) samples of work in a PNG format at min. 600 dpi with title, size, medium, date, and description

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Works must be ready to install, accompanied with all necessary hanging mechanisms, special instructions, securely packed and delivered on site by Saturday, January 30, 2021. Artists must assist with the installation of their outdoor public artworks. Drilling into the ground will not be permitted.

Send submission and direct questions to Rozenia Johnson, Curator of Art and Exhibitions, MDUBA Associates, at rozeniajmduba@gmail.com 313.405.3044.

The Connector at City Hall Artspace and City Hall Park is located at 13615 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn, MI. Learn more about this project and other programs and activities happening in the Downtown Dearborn by visiting downtowndearborn.org or via social media at Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

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Andria Segedy|Savannah Morning News

Visual arts teacher Daria Collins approached her K-5 students at Garden City Elementary School with age appropriate language to encourage them to create art for a local Black Lives Matter art installation.

I tried to use different lenses for different grade levels, she said. With K-1, I presented the Black Lives Matter topic through the lens of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s 'Dream.'I felt like it was important for that grade level because it is what they are learning in social studies.

In art they are learning to draw through observation, she said. She wanted them to understand that people with different skin colors could be friends. They drew a white hand and a brown hand and between those hands was a heart which they could make any color.

The assignment is part of the Beach Institute African-American Cultural Centers #BLM exhibit in partnership with Savannah Chatham County Public Schools, according to Beach Coordinator Jenny McCord.

Open to students and teachers in the public schools, 12 schools participated, eight teachers submitted their own artwork, five schools submitted artwork from students, and there was a total of more than 35 submissions, said Rosemary Dodson, visual arts teacher specialist for the school district.

Starting Tuesday, visitors can see the installation at the Beach Institute from noon-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays. Regular admission applies. The installation will eventually be put on the website at beachinstitute.org.

The #BLM installation was chosen, McCord said, because we tried to combine the two, Black History month and black Lives Matter. …. coming off of all of the unrest this summer it felt like for Black History Month, celebrating Black lives at a Black museum would be appropriate.

The assignment, according to McCord:Artwork should reflect the importance of Black and brown lives, influences, and culture in our community throughout history.

As a liaison between teachers and Beach, Dodson said she let the teachers come up with how they wanted to present the topic to students.

We had a lot of teachers participate with their own personal views on Black Lives Matter, especially since it was so virtual it was hard to get work from students because they were all working at home, Dodson said. Some students did create art for the project virtually and either dropped it off at school or transmitted it electronically.

McCord said the artwork that will be on view includes two sculptures. The rest are drawings or paintings, crayon and weaved fabric.

Brock Elementary School sent an ice cube portrait series, McCord said. Its so fabulous. A pencil drawing of ice cubes from 15 different students at Brock Elementary. It brings me joy, the ice cube art. I love little kid artists.

For grades 2-3 at Garden City Elementary, Collins was showing them African-American artists as professionals. We had a lot of gentle conversations, how in the media African Americans are often shown in a negative light, portrayed as angry or violent…

The book I Am Everything helped her change that narrative as it shows Black peoplein a positive light with an emphasis on diversity, multicultural skin tone, multicultural hair styles. Encouraging an interest in drawing diversity.

For students in grades 4-5, Collins highlighted Black artist Kehinde Wiley, who creates 19th century paints of Black people in what traditionally would be whit people in fine period clothing and fancy jewelry. He changed the agenda by showing Black people in a positive light, she said.

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Noting that she has many Black and Hispanic students in her class, she said, My students looked at the poses from that time period and drew themselves in that position.

These kids made the effort to get their pieces to the schools. It is a lot of extra work right now … it shows they were dedicated to have their pieces in the exhibition, Dodson said.

Collins also created her own art submission called Human. It shows a young black girl in conversation with a hummingbird, and the hummingbird in conversation with the girl. I really wanted to normalize African-Americans, and once again try to change the narrative. I wanted to show African Americans are just as curious, as worthy, as beautiful as any other.. …I wanted my artwork to symbolize equality and justice for all.

The hummingbird, which is know for flying in the path of an infinity sign, reminds her of hummingbirds she saw as a child visiting Jamaica. I used that flight pattern to send the message African Americans are worthy and to be infinitely heard and received. … That is a message African Americans need to hear today. Its important to have that conversation in a different way.

Sharonna Ray, K-5 elementary art educator at School of Humanities at Juliette Low, was working on a group project for students but their working virtually from home kept them from adding to what became Cotton Candy, A Very Sweet Dessert.

I had already planned out the execution for my piece, she said. II had already started the initial layers. So it was due to a lack of time. I was going to have them be a part of it, adding the layers to it. When we became virtual, I had a deadline. I didnt want to throw something together and deviate from my original plan.

She said she had a discussion with the students in regard to Black Lives Matter and just going back to how to bring about change, she said. It doesnt take violence and anger for your voice to be heard.

Andria Segedy is the news submissions coordinator for Savannah Morning News. Contact her at asegedy@savannahnow.com. Twitter: @andria_segedy

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What: #BLM

Where: Beach Institute African-American Cultural Center, 502 E Harris St.

When: Starts Feb. 2, noon-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays

Cost: $10 adult, $7 students, seniors, military

Tickets: beachinstitute.org

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Black Lives Matter (BLM), international social movement, formed in the United States in 2013, dedicated to fighting racism and anti-Black violence, especially in the form of police brutality. The name Black Lives Matter signals condemnation of the unjust killings of Black people by police (Black people are far more likely to be killed by police in the United States than white people) and the demand that society value the lives and humanity of Black people as much as it values the lives and humanity of white people.

Protesters carrying Black Lives Matter signs at a demonstration against police brutality in Boston, Massachusetts, May 2020.

BLM activists have held large and influential protests in cities across the United States as well as internationally. A decentralized grassroots movement, Black Lives Matter is led by activists in local chapters who organize their own campaigns and programs. The chapters are affiliated with the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, a nonprofit civil rights organization that is active in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

BLM was cofounded as an online movement (using the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media) by three Black community organizersPatrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi. They formed BLM after George Zimmerman, a man of German and Peruvian descent, was acquitted on charges stemming from his fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, in Sanford, Florida, in February 2012. Zimmerman, a neighbourhood-watch volunteer, had seen Martin walking in his neighbourhood and called the police because he thought Martin looked suspicious. Although police told Zimmerman not to do anything, he followed Martin, got into an argument with him, and shot and killed him. Zimmerman remained free for weeks after the shooting but was finally charged with second-degree murder and arrested in April, after demonstrations demanding his prosecution were held in cities across the United States. At his trial more than a year later, Zimmerman claimed that he had acted in self-defense. His acquittal in July 2013 was widely perceived as a miscarriage of justice and led to further nationwide protests.

The BLM movement expanded in 2014 after the police killings of two unarmed Black men, Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Garner died in Staten Island, New York, after a white police officer held him in a prolonged illegal choke hold, which was captured in a video taken by a bystander. Brown, a teenager, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Large protests of these deaths in the name of Black Lives Matter captured national and international attention. The BLM movement thereafter continued to play a prominent role in demonstrations against police brutality and racism. Notably, BLM activists protested the deaths at the hands of police or while in police custody of several other Black people, including Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, Freddie Gray, Laquan McDonald, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Alton Sterling, and Breonna Taylor.

National march against police brutality, Washington, D.C., December 2014.

In 2020 George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was pronounced dead after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on Floyds neck for several minutes, despite Floyds repeated protests that he could not breathe. Wide circulation of a bystanders video of Floyds last minutes triggered massive demonstrations in cities throughout the United States and across the globe. The tragedy swayed U.S. public opinion in favour of the Black Lives Matter movement while drawing wide attention to the problem of entrenched racism in American society.

The Black Lives Matter movement has many goals. BLM activists seek to draw attention to the many ways in which Black people are treated unfairly in society and the ways in which institutions, laws, and policies help to perpetuate that unfairness. The movement has fought racism through such means as political action, letter writing campaigns, and nonviolent protests. BLM seeks to combat police brutality, the over-policing of minority neighbourhoods, and the abuses committed by for-profit jails. Its efforts have included calls for better training for police and greater accountability for police misconduct. BLM activists have also called for defunding the policethat is, reducing police department budgets and investing the freed-up funds in community social services, such as mental health and conflict-resolution programs. BLM activists have also worked on voter registration and get-out-the-vote campaigns in Black communities. In addition, BLM programs have celebrated Black artists and writers.

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Its agenda is plain for all to see: cop-killing.

With another two police officers shot at the Black Lives Matter riot in Louisville on Wednesday, its time to lift the veil on the whole movement: Its a haven for unrepentant cop-killers.

These arent isolated incidents. It has been fewer than two weeks since supposedly peaceful BLM radicals chanted, We hope they die, while blocking the entrance to a hospital where two Los Angeles County sheriffs deputies were undergoing life-saving surgery. An assailant had walked up to their patrol vehicle and opened fire from point-blank range without provocation.

Those chilling words echo the rhetoric we hear from BLM founders and members, who make clear that a prime objective of BLM is to Kill Cops. Up until now, this has been kept well enough under wraps to deceive major corporations, professional sports leagues and countless well-meaning Americans.

Joe Biden has made propagating this movements lies a centerpiece of his presidential campaign, waiting months before condemning the wanton violence perpetrated by BLM. Staff members on the Biden campaign contributed money to secure the release of rioters charged with crimes. Meanwhile, progressive Democratic prosecutors refused to even charge some of the worst rioters.

Some people try to separate BLM the organization from the movement that goes by the same name, but at most they are two sides of the same coin. From the start, both the organization and the movement BLM writ large have been about hatred and violence that extends beyond police and includes all white people, all blacks who are conservative and the United States of America.

We saw this in 2014, when BLM first attained national prominence. After months of anti-police rioting, a man pledging revenge for Michael Brown and Eric Garner traveled to New York City, stuck a pistol through the window of a squad car and opened fire. Detectives Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu died on the scene.

I mourned the officers like the rest of New York did. And when I met with the Ramos and Liu families, I was aghast. I reiterated my call for politicians to abandon their reckless anti-police rhetoric. Maybe, I suggested, they should spend the next four months not talking about police hatred, but talking about what they are going to do about bringing down crime in the community.

Nineteen months later, a man opened fire at a BLM protest in Dallas, murdering five officers. BLM disavowed responsibility, but the killer had deep links to the movements radical ideology, stating that he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers. BLM supporters certainly didnt stop chanting Pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon in the aftermath, either.

BLM counts on a legion of journalists who believe BLM will help advance a progressive agenda. They will never admit that violence against police isnt an unfortunate outgrowth of the BLM movement but the central point.

Black Lives Matter isnt about black lives. It ignores the 8,000 to 9,000 black lives taken by other blacks every year in minority communities across the nation. Those black lives, and the lives of African American police officers, dont matter.

Black Lives Matter isnt about holding police accountable, and it isnt a good-faith call for reasonable reform.

If we had a functioning mainstream media, this would be common knowledge by now. Instead, people are learning the real nature of BLM by watching protesters scream We hope they die outside a hospital where two cops are fighting for their lives.

The time has come to face the facts. If you ever supported Black Lives Matter, then you are either a left-wing radical or you got duped. There is no shame in the latter. By design, the relentlessly repeated cry of Black lives matter is an unassailable moral truism, calculated to bully people into supporting a radical, revolutionary, anti-order movement.

The good news is that it isnt too late to make the right decision. You can be a good person who decries racism and condemns police misconduct yet still reject violent left-wing radicalism unequivocally. You can stand for the safety and human dignity of black people and of all people and simultaneously stand with the police officers who maintain law and order.

It starts with rejecting BLM and every politician who has been cynical enough to enable the radical forces intent on tearing this country apart. When you see Black Lives Matter, realize they are dedicated to killing cops. Too much blood has been spilled already. It has to stop.

Rudolph Giuliani is the former mayor of New York City.

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As protests against racist police brutality sweep across the United States and spread around the globe, rallying cries of "Black Lives Matter" echo through our streets and our digital avenues. As we all digest the news and think about how to respond and participate at such a pivotal time, its important to recognize what Black Lives Matter really means as well as why the phrase "All Lives Matter" is problematic.

At its face, "All Lives Matter" sounds like a we're-all-in-this-together statement. Some may be using the phrase to suggest that all races should join hands and stand together against racism, which is a sentiment that comes from a good place. But the problem is, the phrase actually takes the focus away from those who need it. Saying "All Lives Matter" redirects the attention from Black lives, who are the ones in peril.

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Instead, it's important to understand what drives the BLM movement and how to support it by using the phrase and standing behind what it means. It can be an uncomfortable experience for many of us, especially if you're someone that hasn't taken the time to grapple with your own role in the systemic oppression that exists in our society. But it's also an essential education, no matter where you are in your journey.

Black Lives Matter is an anthem, a slogan, a hashtag, and a straightforward statement of fact. While it is not a new movement, the message is central to the nationwide protests happening right now. BLM speaks out against the police brutality and systemic racism that caused the recent deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade and Breonna Taylor, as well as the thousands of violent incidents that happen to Black people that arent recorded, arent reported or arent afforded the outrage they deserve. At its most basic level, it calls for a shift in the statistics that Black people are twice as likely to be killed by a police officer while unarmed, compared to a white individual. According to a 2015 study, African Americans died at the hands of police at a rate of 7.2 per million, while whites were killed at a rate of 2.9 per million.

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One of the goals of the Black Lives Matter movement is to raise awareness that we, as a nation, need to reconsider our priorities. Right now, there are U.S. institutions and systems that act as if black lives don't matter. For example, according to a report by American Progress, in 2015, each of the 10 states with the highest percentage of Black residents reported state and local policing expenditures of more than $230 per resident per year. Thats at least 328 times more than what each state spends on enforcing anti-discrimination laws.

While racism in the United States goes back hundreds of years to the country's founding, the Black Lives Matter timeline started much more recently. The movement arose out of the acquittal of George Zimmerman after he killed Trayvon Martin in 2013. Today, the Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc. is a global organization thats active in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, although it has supporters all over the world.

The BLM guiding principles are to eradicate white supremacy and intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities through advocacy, fundraising and education. The organization aims to combat and counteract violence, amplify Black innovation, and center Black joy.

While the intention of the phrase "All Lives Matter" may be to put everyones life on equal footing and convey a sense of unity, responding "All Lives Matter" to "Black Lives Matter" is actually more divisive than unifying. That's because it discounts and diminishes the focus on the violence and discrimination Black individuals face every day in this country.

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It's a natural reaction to respond to one group centering its experience with, "But what about all lives?" or "Isn't my safety important, too?" But the truth is, Black Americans are disproportionately impacted by police violence and systematic racism in our nation. Our entire social structure centers around whiteness as a default. Asserting that "All Lives Matter" just reaffirms or at best ignores that reality. Of course every life is valuable, but not everyone's lives are in danger due to their skin color. Saying "Black Lives Matter" isn't equivalent to saying other lives don't, but rather that Black lives should matter as much as white lives.

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Alicia Garza, one of the creators of the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag, explained in 2014 how Black lives mattering is a precondition for all lives mattering:

Think of it this way: If you get into a car crash and one person has a serious head injury but the others have a few bumps and bruises, the person whose life is at risk gets first priority when it comes to medical care. That doesnt mean paramedics wont help the rest of the passengers, but that triage places the most dire situation first in line. Or, to look at it another way, if someone keeps setting your house on fire, you'd want firefighters to do something about it. Wouldn't it upset you if instead, people kept telling you that "all houses matter equally," if yours was the one burning?

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For those of us who are invested in working toward equality for all people, its important not to only see color, but to work on leveling the playing field. Its a sad reality that the Black experience in America isnt the same as non-Black experiences, in both seemingly small and incredibly large ways. If youve bought adhesive bandages, pantyhose, or foundation, you know what the default color range is. Many workplaces and schools still prohibit natural hairstyles or look at them as less "professional."

More than half of African Americans also report experiencing racial discrimination at work, from getting interviews at lower rates right on up to pay and promotion disparities. And the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that was established to fight workplace discrimination is too underfunded to adequately respond. In 2018, the EEOC secured $505 million for victims of discrimination, but the agencys lack of resources has created a backlog of nearly 50,000 charges. Moving through the world is just easier for non-Black people in America, and its long past time we acknowledge that. Only then can we work to fix it.

The first step to combating racism in our society is listening, no matter who you are. It hurts to hear that you might hold prejudice, especially if you consider yourself an open-minded person. But instead of getting defensive or jumping in to explain your own perspective immediately, listen to other points of view including those of Black change-makers, elected officials, celebrities, friends and coworkers. Push back on prejudice in your own social circles, even if it requires awkward conversations. And educate yourself on your own inherent bias, even if you dont think you hold any. Vote in your state and national elections to help enact change on a wider platform. And support racial justice organizations monetarily if you can, and share their messages on social media so others can get the information, too.

Follow the lead of black leadership and your own local city and your state," BLM co-founder and chair of Reform L.A. Jails Patrisse Cullors told Nightline. She listed Dignity and Power Now and the Youth Justice Coalition as places to start. Those are just a few organizations that help in these moments when we have people who are upset and [in] pain, angry, grieving," she added. There's hundreds of thousands of more organizations across the country.

We can all work together to dismantle the racial bias that underpins virtually every aspect of our country and world. Its hard work. Its uncomfortable. But nothing worth doing is easy. Theres nothing more important than creating a world in which our children dont have to be afraid to walk through an unfamiliar neighborhood, to go birdwatching, to buy a bag of Skittles, to browse in a high-end store, or even ask a police officer for help, no matter the color of their skin.

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