REPARATIONS ARE REAL...
Black Stacks is both an art collection and an experiment to make reparations real.
Cells Instead of Chains
The story of oppression, labor and systemic terror; where the content changes, but the cover remains the same.
Control is the Operative Word
The war on drugs is structural racism. Thank the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Numbers Don’t Lie
33% of the U.S, prison population is African American, accounting for 1,489,363 prisoners (estimated in 2017). Black men are 6x more likely to go to prison. Meanwhile CCA makes billions in revenue from private prisons.
Kente Cloth Patterns from Gold Coast
10% of enslaved came from the Gold Coast, modern day Ghana and east Ivory Coast.
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