Travis Long
Protestors hang a figure pulled from the Confederate monument at the state Capitol at the Intersection of Salisbury and Hargett Streets in Raleigh, N.C., on June 19, 2020, 2020
The global pandemic of COVID-19 aligned with a pandemic that has been plaguing the US since its conception- RACISM. Police brutality towards people of color came to a traumatic turning point when footage of the murder of George Floyd flooded the internet. In the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Minnesota police force protestors, disheartened and hopeless peoples took to the streets to demonstrate their need for change. Travis Long captured protestors who took to removing and re-contextualizing confederate leader statues. In the photograph above protestors hung the confederate statue in the state capital of North Carolina. This symbolic message showed how Americans are ready to rewrite the skewed version of US history that we have been taught for years. The hanging of the confederate statue provokes an uncomfortable feeling but juxtaposes how people of color were hung all over the country by white supremacists. Label by Annabel Bentley