There has to be a way to stop this madness!! #StopTheWorld … #BlackLivesMatter …..
This had an absolutely profound effect on me when I read it for the first time…
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The sad truth about Shirin Barghi’s #LastWords series is that it may never run out of material.
It started with Eric Garner. When the 43-year-old father of six was choked to death by former NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in July 2014, his final words, recorded on video and viewed thousands of times by people across the United States, were, “I can’t breathe.”
The project didn’t end there. In the year that has passed since Brown’s death, Barghi has been illustrating and tweeting her own creative depictions of the last words spoken by slain black male victims of state violence in the U.S. The result is a haunting tribute to the dead and a heartbreaking reminder of the toll American racism takes daily on black families and communities.
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