walkerartcenter:What was really pathbreaking was the way he made heroic images of Panther leaders
walkerartcenter: What was really pathbreaking was the way he made heroic images of Panther leaders and ordinary people alike fighting the power. Those he foregrounded, poor Black people, were rarely the subject of art, and if ever they were, they were even less frequently shown as the agents of social change and emancipation. —Dread Scott on Emory Douglas -- source link