“Creative battle” from artist Mark Ulriksen.
From the New Yorker website:
“I
asked myself, What would King be doing if he were around today?” the
San Francisco-based artist Mark Ulriksen says, about the civil-rights
leader. The cover’s title draws from Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s 1964
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, in which he spoke of a “creative
battle to end the long night of racial injustice. “This is 49er country,
and my mom and I have been going back and forth—she’s upset that
players have brought politics into sports, but I say, How would you feel
if you had to show up at work every day and salute a country that
treats black people like second-class citizens? I’m glad that Colin
Kaepernick and Michael Bennett are making it political. I’m sure that if
King were around today, he’d be disappointed at the slow pace of
progress: two steps forward, twenty steps back. Or ten yards back, as
the metaphor may be.”
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Art Editor: Françoise Mouly
Editor: David Remnick
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