2010.54.13632

• african american
• ethnicity and race

Poster has an unprinted white border all around enclosing a stylized black and white image showing a central African American man with no shirt wearing a belt with an ankh cross and lifting his muscular arms into the sky. A n electric wave comes out of his right palm and forms the flames of the sun centered at the top of the poster. Between the man''s arms is "Black / Is A / Man" in white. In the sky at the top of the poster are circles filled with images of African Americans. On the horizon is a line of structures with pyramids at the left and right and a temple and mosque at the center. Above the right pyramid in an orb with a shaded African continent in it and the word "Africa". To the left and right of the main figure are additional African American figures - one with a child and a gun, one with a shovel, one doing martial arts and two in traditional clothing, one with a drum. In the earth surrounding the figures are words in English and foreign languages, with hieroglyphics across the bottom. Between the main figure''s legs is "God" in black.