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The New Yorker's Latest Cover Features MLK, Eric Garner & Slain NYPD Cop
The cover of The New Yorker magazine's upcoming Jan. 26 issue is set to feature the faces of several slain minority men in a poignant image of marchers bound together with linked arms.
Likenesses of Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Michael Brown, and NYPD Officer Wenjian Liu are part of a cover entitled "The Dream of Reconciliation."
This description of the cover appeared on The New Yorker magazine's website:
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cover-story-2015-01-26
“The Dream of Reconciliation”
Barry Blitt drew next week’s cover, inspired by the photographs of the Selma-to-Montgomery march that are everywhere again. “It struck me that King’s vision was both the empowerment of African-Americans, the insistence on civil rights, but also the reconciliation of people who seemed so hard to reconcile,” he said. “In New York and elsewhere, the tension between the police and the policed is at the center of things. Like Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, Martin Luther King was taken way too early. It is hard to believe things would have got as bad as they are if he was still around today.”
Barry Blitt drew next week’s cover, inspired by the photographs of the Selma-to-Montgomery march that are everywhere again. “It struck me that King’s vision was both the empowerment of African-Americans, the insistence on civil rights, but also the reconciliation of people who seemed so hard to reconcile,” he said. “In New York and elsewhere, the tension between the police and the policed is at the center of things. Like Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, Martin Luther King was taken way too early. It is hard to believe things would have got as bad as they are if he was still around today.”
more:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/new-yorker-cover-mlk-eric-garner
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