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the reflective black body


a mural for the City of Newark and Mayor Ras Baraka’s Citywide Mural Project at 258 Jelliff ave.
2015

"I tell you now that the question of how one should live within a black body, within a country lost in the Dream, is the question of my life, and the pursuit of this question, I have found, ultimately answers itself." writes Ta-Nehisi Coates to his son Samori in "Between the World and Me"- this mural was inspired by his recent memoir and message.
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