Emmett Till, TJ Reynolds

“My work is essentially just lines drawn on black surfaces. I love the process, but one line I wish I didn’t have to draw is the one that leads from Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin. There are Black people currently being lynched in America. Unfortunately, this is not a line just drawn on a black surface. It runs deeper in the skin, soul, and blood of America.”—TJ Reynolds “I feel sadness for Black boys to continuously be looked at as men and the stigma that goes with that, even now.” —Tonda Hill, Sexual Assault Prosecutor, Wyandotte County