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. @Markos @DailyKos & @Civiqs have the receipts. According to three years of daily tracking of attitudes toward #BlackLivesMatter , the protests are a massive success. For the first time ever, we have white majority support for BLM. https://t.co/Ijve8zubqX — Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) June 3, 2020

Gregg Chadwick speaks at the AACN Symposium at UCLA on Art as a Tool for Social Justice by Gregg Chadwick Last Thursday, I spoke at the AACN Symposium at UCLA on Art as a Tool for Social Justice.  It was an honor to speak at my alma mater. UCLA's  proud history of advancing civil rights was a prime reason I attended the university as an undergraduate.  I was inspired by the heroic stories of  UCLA alums:  Jackie Robinson as he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Kenny Washington as he broke the color barrier in the National Football League in 1946 Ralph Bunche at the UN.  And as I learned later the advocacy for social justice by UCLA Nursing Grad AfAf Meleis. As I write this, I am reminded that six years ago today, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was killed for simply being black in America. His death fueled a movement. I also remember that with millions of others, I marched on January 21, 2017 in the #WomensMarch. Our crowd in L...

by Gregg Chadwick 100 years ago today, the seminal artist Jacob Lawrence was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. When Lawrence was in his teens his family moved to Harlem in New York City, where he studied art with Charles Alston at the Harlem Art Workshop. When Lawrence graduated from the American Artists School in New York he became a participant in the WPA Federal Art Project.  The young artist broke new ground in 1941 with The Migration Series which garnered national attention. I find the video below from the Phillips Collection  in which Lawrence discusses The Migration Series  fascinating: During World War II, while in the United States Coast Guard, first as a public relations specialist on the USS Sea Cloud, and then as a combat artist on the USS Gen. Richardson, Lawrence created a series of artworks documenting his vantage point on the war.   Jacob Lawrence No. 2 Control Panel, Nerve Center of Ship, gouache and watercolor on board Co...

Gregg Chadwick  ‏ @ greggchadwick     12m 12 minutes ago Sant a Monica, CA Powerful new @ Time Magazine cover - photo by 26 year old West Baltimore resident, Devin Allen - @ byDVNLLN