Black Futures Matter
The Black Futures Matter Arts and Activism action was organized by Tiffany Latrice, Brandon Sheats, Liliana Bakhtiari, Erica Chisolm, Living Walls, and community organizers in Sumter, Glynn, Houston, and Fulton Counties in the cities of Americus, Brunswick, Perry, and Atlanta. The goal: to increase awareness and use art to move the Black Lives Matter conversation forward by naming concrete demands to end long-standing oppression, violence, and institutionalized racism.
The project began July 2nd, 2020, and continued over the following weeks with video projections from collaborating artists. Demands included: “End Black Murder, End Citizen’s Arrest, End Redlining, End The industrial Prison System, and many more.
“Black Futures Matter is a declaration; it’s a reckoning; it’s an active statement that Black Lives Matter over everything.. because We Are the Future. We represent the past, present, and future generation despite how patriarchy, capitalism and misogyny intentionally erase our contributions through murder, historic erasure, systemic oppression. This project is an example of collective mobility and organizing where Black Voices are front and center.”
Atlanta Artists:Neka King
Sayma Hossain
Anna Akpele
Weini-Sele Chambers
Niamani Bekley
Tolden Williams
Stephanie Lindo
Shalea Niles
Paula AguilarSumter County Organizers:Elaina Lockhart
Summer Murray
Carl Reid
Kayla Nixon
Jared McAlliste
Ethan Abbot
Hannah Strunk
Derrica Holmes
Kwame Humphrey
Sunshine
Pepper Lockhart
Nichole Thurston
Pastor Courtney Moore
Anteria Jenkins
Theresa Aderhold
Nancy and Jeff Spice
Ronnie Hall
Bobby FuseGlyyn County Organiers:Audrey Gibbons
Roderrick DavisHouston County Organizers:Fenika Miller
Asad Thomas