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What importance does hiararchy have in a supermarket and how can I create awareness about this amongst customers?

The documentary about her life also shows very well how Whites acted towards people of color in her early life and more recently.

Versace chose local music group FAKA to be the official runway music for their men's fashion show in Milan

As new political movements like Black Lives Matter have gained influence in recent years, social practice has risen in stature and popularity in the art world.

https://www.artnews.com/artnews/news/black-bodies-white-cubes-the-problem-with-contemporary-arts-appropriation-of-race-6648/

"Mississipi Goddamn" (1964) by Nina Simone.

Simone’s song portrayed “black rage” as a reasonable and righteous response to white violence, a sentiment that we have seen blossom as protests on the streets of Atlanta, Minneapolis, Newark, Washington D.C., and with each passing hour, cities and countries all over the world today.

I see her as an artist because of how she challanged and questioned her way of living/ being treated, sometimes through music.

Byron Kim’s Synecdoche (1991-present)

"For me it’s a very dramatic piece and an elegant idea that explodes the false duality we’re often given: that art that deals with race can’t be conceptual or can’t be minimalist or can’t be engaged with other formal qualities." - Ryan Wong.

https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/race/lwKinKyOsJ-GKg

Photographer David Goldblatt's exhibition at Modern Art Oxford in 2003 documented social, personal and political upheavals in the history of South Africa from the 1950’s onwards. These photographic essays traced aspects of everyday life through the struggle of apartheid and its legacy. - Very interesting and beautiful photographs.

The artists explore a combination of mediums ranging from sound, live performance, literature, video and photography, to create an eclectic aesthetic with which they express their ideas about themes central to their experience as black queer bodies navigating the cis-hetero-topia of post-colonial Africa.

Leiomy is known as the "Wonder Woman of Vogue", is a transgender Afro-Puerto Rican dancer, instructor, model, activist, and ballroom dancer.

I thought the out-takes of 'Paris is burning' are more interesting than the original movie. I portrayes their personal lives very well and also showing the problems/issues in it.

Icon for My Man Superman (Superman Never Saved Any Black People – Bobby Seale), 1969, Barkley L. Hendricks, courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and the Tate

Hendricks attended Yale before touring Europe, where he was troubled by the lack of diversity found within art museums.
This inspired his striking, life-size portraits of everyday black Americans, which gave representation to a repressed community. He revolutionised portraiture, portraying his subjects with dignity, style and swagger, while also depicting their vulnerability.
One of his most famous works, Superman Never Saved Any Black People, takes its cue from a remark by Bobby Seale, a founder of the Black Panther Party.