Juneteenth, BLM, & revisiting Maurice Berger's Race Stories

We commemorate Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and the countless other Black individuals that have lost their lives to police brutality. These murders demonstrate hate and a racist system that has sanctioned violence and injustice towards the Black community for centuries. We are saddened by and frustrated with this narrative that continuously devalues Black lives and we stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and all who are showing their support at protests across the world.  

We, the staff at the CADVC, are committed to creating a space where our community can have a dialogue about important cultural and aesthetic issues in art, design, and visual culture. It is our mission to uplift the work and voices of artists, and we always strive to feature Black artists and provide them with a platform that reaches our UMBC community and surrounding Baltimore area.

Over the next eight weeks, we will be revisiting the late Maurice Berger’s Race Stories, as published in the New York Times and featured on our website. In 2018, Maurice was awarded the International Center of Photograph’s Infinity Award for his work on these essays, which explore the relationship between race and photographic portrayal of race. To learn more about Maurice and his work on Race Stories, please reference his website and the video about the project linked below.  

We begin this series by looking at “Capturing the Struggle for Racial Equality, Past and Present,” next week, Monday June 22 on our social media and myUMBC page.

This social media project is curated by Madeline Arbutus, CADVC intern.

Maurice’s website: https://mberger104.journoportfolio.com/

Race Stories video: https://mediastorm.com/clients/2018-icp-infinity-awards-maurice-berger