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The exhibit takes visitors through American history starting in the 1890s through the start of the Black Lives Matter movement.

The exhibit takes visitors through American history starting in the 1890s through the start of the Black Lives Matter movement.

“How can art history help inform our understanding of the deep roots of racial violence?” asks curator Janet Dees. A new exhibition debuting

“How can art history help inform our understanding of the deep roots of racial violence?” asks curator Janet Dees. A new exhibition debuting later this month at The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University seeks to address this and related questions as it considers the long history of American artistic engagement with anti-Black violence. From the anti-lynching campaigns of the 1890s to the founding of Black Lives Matter in 2013 and up to today, A Site of Struggle: ...

‘A Site of Struggle’ at NU’s Block Museum includes warnings that some of the more graphic pieces may cause discomfort.