Pamela and David Purdy Commemorate Trayvon Martin and the Black Lives Matter Movement

 

"Eight years ago today, February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin was killed— Hunted and stalked by George Zimmerman and shot.Trayvon was carrying a soft drink and a bag of Skittles. Trayvon fought for his life, yet Zimmerman was given a 'not guilty' verdict for 'self-defense.' This began the Black Lives Matter movement."—Pamela Chatterton-Purdy

Since 2004, Artist Pamela Chatterton-Purdy and Rev. Dr. David Purdy, writer and retired Methodist minister, have been working to create an artistic and scholarly record of the ongoing movement of Black people in America for freedom and equality under the law. Their magnificent art exhibition is titled Icons of the Civil Rights Movement. The piece at left, commemorating Trayvon Martin and the Black Lives Matter movement, is one of 46 works in the series. You can see all of the works to date here.