Justice For Black Lives
Wright Seneres
Trustee, Rider University | Multimedia designer and digital content producer
I was struggling to find a way to contribute to the cause that felt meaningful and true for me. Then I had this idea for this illustration to honor these black lives, and add my voice to the call for justice and systemic change.
To assemble this tribute, both to black lives, and to my favorite hip hop album of all time, A Tribe Called Quest’s Midnight Marauders, I read and re-read about so many lives that ended in tragedy. It’s a deeper tragedy that there were so many names and faces that I could have chosen beyond the 34 here for this artwork.
I thought it was important to emphasize the faces of these black lives that mattered, to illuminate their humanity one more time. In place of ATCQ’s red and green mascot, Colin Kaepernick was the natural choice to represent the intelligent social commentary of the album put into action, on behalf of victims past and present.
- Tony Terrell Robinson
- Eric Garner
- Matthew Ajibade
- Tanisha Anderson
- Walter Scott
- Laquan McDonald
- Phillip White
- Michelle Cusseaux
- Ezell Ford
- Botham Jean
- Mya Hall
- Trayvon Martin
- Tamir Rice
- Eric Harris
- Dante Parker
- Natasha McKenna
- Rumain Brisbon
- Antwon Rose II
- Anthony Hill
- Alton Sterling
- Jerame Reid
- Frank Smart
- John Crawford III
- Sandra Bland
- Michael Brown
- Atatiana Jefferson
- Breonna Taylor
- Ahmaud Arbery
- Stephon Clark
- George Floyd
- Akai Gurley
- Philando Castile
- William Chapman II
- Freddie Gray
The systemic oppression and racism that black people in America have suffered was built over hundreds of years, but it doesn’t have to take hundreds more to be dismantled. We all need to do our part. The time for it is way overdue.