Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander revisits her seminal essay on Rodney King and discusses how videos of police brutality against King, George Floyd, and others have “forged a traumatized collective historical memory” all the way up through today's "Trayvon Generation."
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Salamishah Tillet, "Elizabeth Alexander on the Spectacle of ‘Black Bodies in Pain’," The New York Times, June 19, 2020.
