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This piece by Hank Willis Thomas was inspired by Ernest Withers’ photograph of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers March (swipe to see the image). Joined by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., men and women came together to assert their humanity and stand up against segregation, holding up signs that said “I am a man.” That slogan has been historically utilized to oppose the racist notion that African Americans are subservient and 3/5 of a person. Hank’s work often juxtaposes the then and now, using art to start conversations about how the past folds into the present. “The phrase I grew up with wasn't ‘I am a man,’ it was ‘I am the man,’ and I was amazed at how it went from this collective statement during segregation to this seemingly selfish statement after integration,” he says. “So, I decided to remix that text in as many ways as I could think of, and I like to think of the top line as a timeline of American history, and the last line as a poem.” In Hank’s #TEDTalk with his legendary mother, photographer Deborah Willis, the two talk about how their art challenges mainstream narratives about black life and black joy. Watch it at go.ted.com/historicalart
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