The Morning Paper

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 The third and final chapter to this Lynching Blues series focuses on the black press, and communicating to the black community, and the world about lynching and systemic racism.

1. The Morning Paper #8 explains the relevance of African Americans creating their own platform and media, to tell their stories and perspectives, regarding the issues that are important to them in society.

2. The Morning Paper #2 shows the power of distributing such media and information throughout the African American community. The man stands, shouting about the value of knowing what is happening

in your community and how it affects everyone as a whole. He is selling newspapers to passersby.

3. The Morning Paper # 3 is one of my favorite drawings in the series. A man walking in the winter season, with his little son, who will eventually be aware of the horrors of systemic racism as he ages. The concern and fear seems to overwhelm the father's face as he protects his child in the world. This wasn't intentionally created as I drew this piece. But what I enjoy most about loose drawing and sketching, is the work becomes its own entity, and tells a subconscious story that the artist wasn't aware of while creating. This is revealed after finishing a piece, in which this is a good example of that.

4. The Morning Paper is my favorite in this chapter of the series. The mood and setting of this drawing really draws me in, and inspired me to continue with this particular chapter, of expressing how information that personally affects an individual is processed. It is the first one in the chapter, and also a piece in which the original sold! I was very excited and proud of the sale.

5. The Morning Paper #5 is an important piece particularly, because it explains how the younger generation had to learn and process this information, and the psychological trauma of realizing that numerous black people were being murdered in their community. The fear and anxiety that must have come over them, as they are being told what to do, and what not to do, in the hopes that they too would not become a victim of a lynching. The young man with the satchel appears to be a paper route carrier, sharing the news with his friends.