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Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 28 November 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
There is an image of the Memorial Fence and the Washington Monument. Behind it there are a bike, chairs, coolers, protesters, and bags that are in front of the fence. There are people are in front of the fence and one is holding a poster protesting. Multiple posters read “Stop Killing Us” “Pay A Black Woman Today” “Black Lives Matter” “Resist “We are the Majority” “Black Power” “Defeat White Supremacy” “Sex Is Great But Have You Ever Fucked The System” “ Fuck Your Fence “ We See Another Black Man Murdered” Imagine Justice” “Just Love” “Beware of the Dog” “Black Trans Lives Matter” “Trump Is A Danger To Us All” “White silence Fuels Domestic [illegible]” “#DefundMPD EndSARS” “Fuck Your Fence” “Join Campaign Zero” “#Say Their Names” “White Supremacy is Deadly” “State of Injustice” “Protect Democracy From GOP” “Jesus knows Black Lives Need More Than Thoughts & Prayers”. There is also a Mexican flag hanging from the stoplight and a flag that reads “Fuck Trump.” There is a poster with a drawing of two black power fists raised and Colin Kaepernick taking a knee. There is a mask of Donald Trump with a Hitler mustache drawn on and a drawing of Breonna Taylor.
Multiple posters read “Breonna Taylor” “Say Their Names” “Back Lives Matter Matter Matter” “Say His Name” “Bring Our Soldiers Back” “Solidarity Not Sympathy” “The People Have Spoken!!” “If Your Religious Beliefs Oppose Contraception, Don’t Use It” “Black Power Matters” “Racial Justice = Climate Justice” “Class Dismissed Betsy!! #OnBehalfOfALLTeachers” “Divided We Fall.”
Many posters read “Black Trans Lives Matter” and the posters are in the colors of the transgender flag or the American flag.
Some flowers have been placed on the fence themselves.
There is a painting that shows a cityscape and there are three hammers on top of each other that are held by black hands. These hammers are breaking a police badge that is cracked open and reveals an American dollar bill.
There is a poster that is painted like an upside-down American flag that has two shadow hands that are painted on it.
A poster that is falling down reads “I went to John Marshall Elem. School 50 yrs. Ago with the Day twins. 20 years before Sandra Day O’Connor was appointed to the Supreme Court.”
Multiple posters read Black Lives Matter Matter Matter” and “Eyes Open”. The second poster is a lavender color and an image of an eye in the middle with a teardrop as the pupil and circles extending outwards from the eye.
A poster reads “Environmental Justice because Black Lives Matter
There is a poster that reads “Black Women’s Lives Matter #SayHerName” and around the border of the poster are the names of women who have been victims of police brutality and it reads “Sandra Bland – Breonna Taylor – Shelly Frey – Kendra Ja[illegible] – Kayla [illegible] – Tanisha Anderson – Michelle Cusseaux – Alberta Spruill – Rekia Boyd – Sharmel Edwards – LaTanya Haggerty – Gabriella Nevarez – Shantel Davis – Malissa Williams – Miriam Carey”
There is a cardboard poster that reads “No Justice No Peace” with “Justice” and “Peace” painted in red to stand out and has two black power fists painted on it.
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Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 26 November 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
There is a poster that reads “The Guardians of the BLM Memorial Fence need help! The BLM Memorial Fence, and those protecting it, are at risk daily from Trump supporters and Trump himself, cops, other white supremacists, and weather conditions. A small group works to guard the fence but need supplies, equipment food and transportation, urgently! Donate via GoFundMe #FundTheFEnce #BLM”
A poster reads “WHY DO BLACK Lives MATTER? Deuteronmy [sic] 28 Verses 68 [;] And the Lord Shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen, and bondwomen, and no man shall buy u [sic] [;] April 3rd 1968 Dr King wrote he has been to the mountain top and has seen the Promised Land He might not get here with us But he was not afraid. 52 years ago he gave testimony of The Kingdom of God and the Promised Land is the Land Promised to be [illegible] by the Lord. 2020 was the Prophecy of Dr. King as He [illegible] above corruption in the line of Musa, Elijah, and the Son Yeshua, From Goshen to Galilee to D.C. in 2020 in the Chain of Affliction Black Lives are the Number One Link [;] 2020 Be My Elect [;] Uncle Samuel L. Powell The Right On Write in Candidnte [sic[ for P.O.T.U.S. [;] INDEPENDENT”
Multiple posters read “All Votes Matter” “Black Lives Matter” “Your Silence is Loud #BLM say their names” “Pack Your Shit, Don” “Defund MPD” “Say his Name Quawan Charles”
There is a blue poster with black and white swirls to represent the ocean and it reads “The Seas Are Rising So Must We”
A poster reads “Families Belong Together” and there are stick figure drawings to represent families on the poster.
A black poster that reads “Do You Hear the PEOPLE Sing?” and there are outlines of four fists drawn in white paint at the bottom of the poster.
A poster reads “It’s Right to Rebel ! – Mao ¡ La Rebelión Se Justifica !” which translates into “The Rebellion is Justified”
There is an image of a postage stamp, and it reads “Stamp Out Trump” and next to it is a poster that is slightly falling down which has an image of a mail delivery van and it reads “Save the Post Office”.
There is a poster that reads “Black Trans Lives Matter” and the poster has the colors of the transgender flag which is blue, pink, and white.
There is a poster which has a drawn image of a meme which is a dog with a hat and there is fire in the background and a bacterium floating around it and it reads “Finally”. The dog is also holding a piece of paper that reads “Eviction Notice To: Donald Trump From: Murica” #MPP”
Another poster reads “Fuck Amerikka! ACAB [;] FTP [;] Defund MPD [;] Fuck MPD”
A poster reads “The African Diaspora must unite and deconstruct the institution put in place to divide us.” And another reads “11/14: Nazis stabbed my friends. Where were you? Defend DC?” “Justice for DeonKay We wont [sic] forget you! #RIP”
There is orange duct tape that reads “Deonte Rawlings” and “Alonzo [illegible].
There is a poster that reads “#BLM 2020” and a drawn image of a woman who has glasses and a mask who is holding a poster that reads “Racism Continues To Shame Us – Pope Francis.”
Multiple posters reads “White Supremacy will be Defeated” “Say Their Names “Taking Our flag BACK!” “BLM” “YOU’RE FIRED” “Breonna Taylor” “Black Trans Power” “Who Invented the ‘White Race’? the Ruling Class! Read = Ted Allen’s ‘The Invention of the White Race’” “Put the gun’s Down and pick us kid’s up! Gun’s down in our Home street’s and community! Rip Maurice scott [heart symbol] Gun’s down Friday !!” “Justice for Quawan Charles” “Black and Proud [;] Brown girl, you are lovely in every shade! I’m Not my hair. I’m Not my skin. I am the soul that lives within.” “Bring Back Our Boys” “Say Her Name Sandra Bland”
There is a white tapestry with a drawn image of Donald Trump and a horse that is looking at him and they are in a stable and it reads “Stable genius”. On Donald Trump's tie, there is a hammer and sickle which is commonly a communist symbol.
A poster that reads “My Vice President Looks Like Me!” and a drawn image of Kamala Harris and the “MVP” is highlighted in black to stand out.
There are multiple strips of fabric with names of those who were victims of police brutality and they read “RIP [illegible]” “Anthony Hill” “Renisha McBride” “[illegible] Pharoah M[illegible]” “Darius Robinson” “R.I.P. Philando Castile” “R.I.P Dominique Clayton” “R.I.P. Antwon Rose”
There are multiple black and white photographs of people who have lost their lives to police brutality and all read Defund Disarm Disband The Police”. The photographs read “Aira Rosser 40 Yrs Old November 9, 2014” “Aiyana Jones 7 Yrs Old May 16, 2010” “Betti Jones 55 Yrs Old Dec 26, 2017” “Alteria Woods 21 Yrs Old March 19, 2017” “Meagan Hockaday 26 Yrs Old March 28, 2015” “Kyam Livingston 37 Yrs Old July 24, 2013” “Kyla Moore 41 Yrs Old Febuary [sic] 12, 2013” “Loreal Tsingine 27 Yrs Old March 27, 2016” “Kisha Michael 31 Yrs Old Febuary [sic] 21 2016” “Jeanette Riley 35 Yrs Old July 8, 2014” “Pamela Turner 44 Yrs Old May 13, 2019” “Kiwi Herring 30 Yrs Old Aug 21, 2017” “Karen [illegible]”
There are other color photographs of victims of police brutality and they read “Kyam Livingston July 24, 2013” “Bataline Mbegby Oct 6, 2014 Rest In Power” “Rest In Power” “Rest In Power Tommy”
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Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 20 October 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
There is a small cardboard cutout of Donald Trump that reads “Family Separator #tinytrump.” There is a pink sticker that has the black power fist at the top and flowers surround it. There are two hands below it and they are holding up two weight scales that have a gavel and a dove in them. This sticker reads “No Justice No Peace No Racist Police” This sticker was created by @citizenruthbrand.
There is a view from the ground that shows the fence and people walking on the sidewalk and protesting in the street. On the ground is a line of papers that are black and white printed photos of photos. They read “The Doors are Closing on Evil. White Supremacy is Terrorism” “The Moral Finder of This Country is Torn to Shreds” “Trump’s Life is a Waste of Matter” Trumps a Liar” and the rest are unable to be read properly.
Another shot of the fence shows two flags that are standing up against the fence and one is a black flag that has “Trump” on it with a black circle background that has a red circle with a line going through it. The second black flag next to it is folded over and has “Trump” on it with the communist sickle and hammer replacing the “U” and has a red circle with a line going through it.
There are many posters that reads “Trump Digs His Own Grave” “Trump Lies All The Time” “Trump is Guilty” “Arrest Trump” “None of this is Normal Stop the Gaslighting” “ACAB” “Stop ICE!” “Stop Murdering Black People” “Don’t Force Your Dick on U.S.a [sic]” “Outbreak? Crime Scene? Or Both? Vote Them Out” “Save Our Kids” “votethem out! VoteThem Out!! VOTETHEM OUT!!!” “Black Trans Lives Matter” “Silence is Betrayal” “Yeah The Black Guy Did It” “State of Injustice” “My Body is NOT A Political Playground” “America has had 400 years to make it RIGHT BLM” “Loser” and “Tool of Russia Under Master Putin [-] Threatening Rotten Unscrupulous Murderous Pandemic-Panderer” “No Barrett No Trump No KKK No Fascist USA Fuck Your White Supremacy” “State of Obstruction” “The Trump Hotel is a Crime Scene” “The Trump Hotel is a Breeding Ground of Corruption” “We can’t repeal out pre-existing conditions” “KKK in Blue” “Justice for those Killed” “Black Lives Matter.” And a poster that is on black cardboard with “BLM” that was spraypainted on with yellow spray paint.
A black poster with pink cursive handwriting reads “fuck Trump” and has hearts drawn around it. Another poster that has the silhouette of the Grim Reaper on a yellow background with Mitch McConnell’s face on it reads “Moral Monday Caravan on McConnell” and “STOP McConnell’s Meanness, Mayhem & Misery Pass a Full & Just Stimulus Package!” Another black poster has different colored words and reads “Fuck You GOP!” “Gray Old Peckers.”
There is a black poster that reads “The Silent Unknown” which seems to be a poem and has an image of someone in red with their hands up and head down.
There are multiple pictures of those who lost their lives to police brutality and they have “Rest in Power” or “#SayHerName” and some of them have the victims' names on them. The legible names are “Pamela Turner May 13, 2019” “Bryan Overstreet April 2015” “Cory Levert Tanner Aug 13, 2014” “Zikarious Flint March 30, 2014” “Kiorte Spencer Februrary 26, 20[..]” and “Mathew Ajibade Jan 1, 2015”.
There is a cardboard poster of the Monopoly man who is holding a police officer and it reads “Black Lives Matter R.I.P. George Floyd Breonna Taylor Atatiana Jefferson Freddie Gray” it further has “marcmoneyart.com” and “@marcmoneyart”.
A cardboard poster that has black silhouettes of protesters holding names of people who have been killed by police brutality (Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor, Freddie Gray, Tony McDade, D’Quan Young, and George Floyd) reads “All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us.”
A poster that reads “Justice for Queen Breonna” has a portrait of Breonna Taylor with a crown on and there is a painted portrait of Trayvon Martin that reads “Trayvon.”
There is a painted portrait of Vanessa Guillén with the Mexican flag behind her (green, white, and red) that reads “Not one more.”
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Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 10 October 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.
There is a diorama of the White House that is behind a fence and two soldiers on top of it. Underneath the ‘White House’ is a bunker baby, and there is a bush next to this figure of a baby. On the base of the diorama there is text that reads "2020 Fearless Girls."
There is a sticker on a light post that has four black power fists on it. It is separated into fours by a white cross that reads “White silence is violence.” Three of the squares are black with a white fist, and the bottom left corner is a white square with a larger black fist in it.
There is a small gold statuette of three figures depicting Sally Hemmings with one of her children in chains and Thomas Jefferson next to her. The statuette reads “Sally Hemmings, Thomas Jefferson’s slave, bore five of his children. One died, two escaped and two were freed in Jefferson’s will. Sally was never freed.” There is a yellow and pink rose underneath it. Next to this is a purple painted canvas that reads “Black Lives Matter” and it is underlined.
There are four posters that are on plywood, and they have a stylized portrait of Snoop Dogg and the posters read “I’m Voting Because I Want To End Police Brutality” or “I’m Voting This Election For The First Time Because I Can’t Stand To See This Punk In Office Another Year.”
There are multiple posters that read “You’re Lucky Black People want Equality not Revenge,” "Erdogan Stop WAR,” “Jacob Black Is Still Alive [;] His life should NEVER have been in danger,” “#NationinDistress #JacobBlane #NativeLivesMatter #DumpTrump #FuckthePolice #DemilitarizethePolice #Antifa #BLMSolidarity # #NoJusticeNoPeace #KnowJusticeKnowPeace #RulesofEngagement #EscalationofForce Respect our Existence or Expect our Resistance,” “No Justice” [This has caution tape on the poster] “BLM” “Say Their Names,” and “Justice for Breonna.”
There is a cardboard poster that has the black power fist drawn on it and a tapestry that has the image of a church which is the Church of the Redeemer, Presbyterian. This poster reads “Black Lives Matter” “Church of the Redeemer, presbyterian Washington, DC” “A congregation with a civil rights legacy.”
There is a black poster that reads “Say Her Name” and this has many trans women’s names on it who have been a victim to police brutality. Another poster above this reads “Black Lives Matter” “Say Their Names” and has the following names written on it: George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Rekia Boyd, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, India Kager, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Philando Castille, and Tarika Wilson.
There is a poster that has a portrait of Hitler on it with blood splatters behind his head and a red “X” crossing out his face. Under his face reads “Stop the War.
There is a cardboard poster that reads “Racism Is Small Dick Energy” underneath this is a black skateboard without wheels, and it reads “Andy Roy” [a professional skateboarder] “Bad Geese” with an image of Woody Woodpecker and it's heavily used. -
Protest signs and artwork on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, Date: 01 October 2020
Protest signs and posters on the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence, located on the north side of Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.” Afterward, describe the selected images for the entry.
There are papers that are slightly ripped and reads "No Vote is no Representation...Vote". Underneath this is a paper that reads "Demand DC's Core Four: 1. Police-Free DC Schools 2. End Qualified Immunity 3. Establish A New DC Public Safety Department 4. Make Election Days a DC Holiday". To the right of this paper is a drawing of a raised fist and the silhouettes of Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising the Black Power Salute from the 1968 Olympics in Mexico.
There is a far away shot of a section of the BLM memorial fence that has the Washington Monument in the background.
There is a cardboard sign that reads "Sandra, your Naperville family will always say your name", underneath this sign is one that reads "WEEP With Those Who WEEP" and a sticker with the USPS symbol on it reads "United We Riot". There are multiple pictures of Black Americans who lost their lives to police brutality and multiple posters next to these photographs which read "Black Lives Matter", "No Justice No Fourth", and "#BlackVotersMatter. -
Remember Their Names
This is a piece about "say their names." The image depicts the names of Black people from throughout history in the clouds of heaven.