TED Talksさんのインスタグラム写真 - (TED TalksInstagram)「This piece by @HankWillisThomas was inspired by Ernest Withers’s photo of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers March (swipe to see the image). Joined by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., these men and women came together to assert their humanity and stand up against segregation, holding signs that said: “I am a man.” That slogan has been historically utilized to oppose the racist idea that Black Americans are less than their white counterparts. In his work, Thomas often juxtaposes time periods, using art to start conversations about how our past shows up in our present. “The phrase I grew up with wasn't ‘I am a man,’ it was ‘I am the man,’” he says. “So I decided to remix that text in as many ways as I could think of. I like to think of the top line as a timeline of American history, and the last line as a poem.” Visit the link in our bio to watch Thomas’s TED Talk with his mother, photographer Deborah Willis, and how they are challenging the repeated narratives about Black life and Black joy through their art. #MLKDay」1月19日 4時32分