When it comes to the giants of protest art, few loom as large as Emory Douglas , the 82-year-old graphic artist, illustrator and muralist who served as the Black Panther Party’s minister of culture from 1967 to 1982. Douglas’ covers for the Black Panther Party newspaper defined the look of the radical movements of the ’60s and ’70s, and more than 50 years later, those striking, high-contrast illustrations still offer a timely rebuke to police brutality and imperialism.
Most people know Douglas for iconic pieces like his rifle- and newspaper-toting Paperboy from 1970 , and in the decades since, he’s never stopped making art about liberation. It’s that more recent work, digital prints Douglas created within the last 15 years, that fills the first part of a new exhibition called Em

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