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Exhibitions Tagged #Racism

Made of Smokeless Fire

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2024

“Made Of Smokeless Fire” is an exploration of LGBTQIA+ identities within Muslim culture in France, which are often underrepresented and simply ignored. France has the largest proportion of Muslims in the Western world, estimated at 8.8% of the population, or 5.57 million people. But islamophobia is still omnipresent

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A Place Where the Dream Lives

Washington Street and Prospect Street
 archive : 2022

Presented by National Geographic

In a nation with a history of racist housing policies, this community became an enduring exception — and a point of pride.

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Scars of Racism

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2019

Scars of Racism seeks to document the lasting physical reminders of racism on the American landscape.

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Broken?

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2016

The exhibit aims to raise difficult questions and provoke conversations about what Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, calls “the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.” Broken? explores the U.S. criminal justice system through photographs and testimonies of formerly incarcerated people and of community leaders working for prison reform.

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When Living Is a Protest

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2015

Sixty years ago, just marching was considered an act of protest. Actually, in 1969, a group of young men burnt down 40 buildings in the town of Clinton South Carolina, after feeling that the pressure put on them by the Ku Klux Klan was too much to bear. That was their protest.

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Events and Sessions Tagged #Racism

Oct 32020

Asian Americans Reflect on Seeing Themselves, Race, and the Pandemic

New York-based Asian Americans who shared their experiences of pandemic-fueled racism with TIME gather for a virtual roundtable discussion on contextualizing anti-Asian racism during the coronavirus pandemic.

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