Kadir Nelson's illustration 'Say Their Names,' for the New Yorker, represents the violence against African Americans across the centuries.
Nelson described the cover as a “memorial to all of the African Americans who were and continue to be victimized by the long shadow cast by racism in America and around the globe.”
Choosing a heavy palette of shadows and muted tones, Nelson said his “weighted portrait of George Floyd” includes 18 other “African American souls who were murdered by law enforcement officers, while providing a visual context of historical institutionalized racism and discrimination against African Americans.”“We all need to know this; we all have to know what black Americans are dealing with every single day,” said New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly.
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