'I go to sleep to gunshots, it doesn’t stop me' the art collective backing young black artists

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It’s long past time to give credit to young black and brown artists says Amanda King, whose art collective Shooting Without Bullets is breaking down barriers
A black-and-white photograph shows two young men in the door frame of an abandoned storefront. “PRIVATE CLUB” is written on the boarded-up door. “NO Weapons, Drugs, Purses” it says.
The photograph, taken by Lai Lai Bonner, 19, spread quickly. It was featured in the local paper, The Plain Dealer, sold at a gallery in the Cleveland Print Room, a local art studio, and currently sits in an exhibition at the Grasselli Library at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio. Continue reading...

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