Boarded Up Chicago Storefront Images Days After The George Floyd Riots

Download or read book Boarded Up Chicago: Storefront Images Days After the George Floyd Riots written by Zachary Slaughter and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first half of 2020, Americans endured the COVID_19 Crisis, quarantine, massive loss of lives and historic unemployment. Then the death of George Floyd, yet another unarmed black man, dead at the hands of police became too much for the citizens to bear. The people rioted across the country, property was looted and destroyed. Soon store owners would board up their looted or vulnerability businesses. Afterward, the local artist used those blank wooden boards as canvases to express themselves; here's what they had to say...