Civil rights activists from the 1950s and ’60s have remarked upon how quickly the Black Lives Matter movement reignited after George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. Some of this momentum was fueled by social media: In New York, the Instagram account @justiceforgeorgenyc, which provides a schedule of events and ongoing coverage, garnered more than 200,000 followers within a few weeks. In recent months, art critics for The New York Times have cited several accounts about black art, history and thought, including those of the curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the artists Cauleen Smith and Kara Walker, and the architect David Adjaye, who led the consortium that designed the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. Here are some other accounts that are among my current favorites. Monument Lab(@monument_lab)

Source: New York Times June 29, 2020 19:30 UTC