Month: October 2022

Sherry Johnson, Child Bride, 2022, Acrylic on Canvas, 24 x 30″ 1960 – Eleven-year-old Sherry Johnson was forced to marry her rapist following giving birth to his child at age ten. The marriage allowed her molester, a church deacon, to escape legal punishment for his crime. Instead of having a childhood, Johnson had to care… Continue reading Sherry Johnson

1960- Lucy McBath is a gun control activist and politician who has worked tirelessly to pass gun control legislation in the United States. She became a gun control advocate after her 17-year-old son, Jordan Davis, was shot and killed by a white man who objected to the volume of music playing in Davis’s car. Since… Continue reading Lucy McBath

Darnella Frazier was 17 when she recorded George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis in 2020. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Special Citations in 2021. The video played a major role in igniting a global protest movement against police violence, and was used as evidence in the trial of Floyd’s killer.