Rising with the Downtown Phoenix skyline, a 100-foot-tall, vibrantly colorful mural of author James Baldwin gazes out over the city. Created by Phoenix native, artist Antoinette Cauley for the Ten-O-One Building in 2020, at the height of a year marked by the murder of George Floyd, racial justice protests, the Covid-19 Pandemic and Trump’s first impeachment, this mural is a permanent reminder of resilience in the face of injustice.

Celebrating the fifth anniversary of her work being part of Phoenix’s landscape, Cauley reflects on what has and has not changed in our society. Today, with a second Trump administration going full tilt towards fascism, doubling down on racist and queerphobic policies and using divisive fear tactics to abuse power, Baldwin’s message feels more urgent than ever.

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