Instagram is a visual medium, and when tens of millions of users uploaded a blank image to their grids, it said something.
One day last June, black squares fell across Instagram at a terrific speed. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist”: Thanks to the culture we shared in a year unlike any other, the world looks, for better or worse, at least a little different. From “Judas and the Black Messiah” to H.E.R.’s “I Can’t Breathe,” from the canceling of podcasts to the toppling of monuments to oppression, from “White Fragility” to Ibram X. Even so, a year later - after Americans protested and posted black squares on social media after calls for the convictions of the officers who killed Breonna Taylor and other Black Americans went unanswered - the question remains: After the most significant civil rights movement in the lifetime of many of us, how much has changed? When the dust settles, what of the uprising persists? On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered under the knee of a white police officer, who is now in prison.
Black Squares, Mass-Produced by Amanda Hess The ‘Reply All’ Meltdown by Reggie Ugwu Racism Became the Genre by Wesley Morris Songs of Pain and Defiance by Joe Coscarelli The Many Faces of George Floyd by Maya Phillips Revisiting Monuments, Revisiting History by Jason Farago Our Bookshelves, Ourselves? by Lauren Christensen Making Museums Move Faster by Holland Cotter
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