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Potent minimalist art sends a strong message about police and vigilante brutality in America

Journalist and artist Shirin Barghi has created a gripping, thought-provoking series of graphics that not only examines racial prejudice in today’s America, but also captures the sense of humanity that often gets lost in news coverage. Titled “Last Words,” the graphics illustrate the last recorded words by Brown and other young black people — Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and others — who have been killed by police and vigilantes in recent years.

Let us not forget their voices

SHARE their names.

SAY their names.

every time a person is killed for the crime of being black, as a black person i feel like a part of me dies with them. it’s like i knew them personally and i mourn another family member every week. it’s terrifying that it’ll always be possible that i could be joining them next and that i’m just supposed to go about my day like my brothers and sisters aren’t being killed all around me

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Darren Wilson, the officer responsible for the murder of Michael Brown, will once again not be charged with any crime follwing a new investigation. Michael Brown was an unarmed 18 year old whose murder sparked #HandsUpDontShoot and the Black Lives Matter movement back in the summer of 2014. The court system was never designed for justice, despite its claims, and it still works that way today.

Micheal Brown is the reason I learned about the court and prison system back in high school. I learned everything I could about the legal system, prisons, segregation, police, and it radicalized me.

6 years later and the system hasn’t changed, but we have. And we will change the system.