Colette Gaiter is an artist, writer, and associate professor in the University of Delaware’s Department of Art and Design. Her writing on Emory Douglas has been published in Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas and West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977.
From the Black Panthers to Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter is the most significant broad-based human rights coalition for black Americans since the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. But the struggle today could not be fought in its current iterations without the contributions of Black Panthers artist Emory Douglas and others who illuminated hidden ugly racial truths in compelling and beautifully executed images.