كرامة قبل الخبز

Siwa Oasis x Visual Arrest x Hamsa Hands

From Manhattan

I remember

The sea of djellabas

The ocean of hijabs

The river of taglemusts

That flow through the lands

Of the Maghreb

Mashallah

-ID

Be like the sun

Provide light

Wherever you go

Warmth

To all those around you

Rise

With intention and power

Radiate

With compassion and love

You are light

Growth

Consistency

Beware

Of those

Who are not

Be like the sun

But you know

Not everyone who seeks your shine

Deserves it

- Isaiah DuPree

To all the boys 

I have loved

& to all the boys

Who love(d) me

You’re welcome.

From East Africa to the East Coast

Another world is possible in the African Cosmos 

Until my people are thriving

Until the Earth is protected

Until trans people are respected

Until land is returned

Until housing is a right

Until families are reunited

Until white supremacy crumbles

Until wealth is redistributed

Until troops are brought home

Until walls are torn down

Until healthcare is for all

Until the empire falls

Until police and prisons

The children

Of chattel slavery

Are abolished

I can't breathe

I can't breathe

I can't breathe

Until the "land of the free"

No longer

Cries out

For freedom

Martin Luther King Jr was not the sacrificial lamb of civil rights like some of us were taught to believe. He was a husband. A father. A minister. An organizer. A friend. He did not voluntarily sacrifice himself on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. He was indirectly executed by the state.

MLK was not always a firm believer in nonviolence, and in his earliest days of activism he armed himself in self defense. MLK wasn't about asking permission to protest and routinely marched in the street. MLK denounced US war, poverty and capitalism. The FBI was paranoid about the rise of a "Black Messiah" and actively targeted him. At the time of MLK's assassination (1968) the majority of white people across this country despised him.

It is not an accident that nearly all of the prominent leaders of the civil rights movement are either in prison, living in exile, or dead. We have made major steps towards Black liberation, but the work of our activist ancestors is not done. Too often we confuse change for progress. "Black Lives Matter" is the new "I Am A Man".

Antiracism must be collectively authored and maintained. We are each responsible for disrupting all forms of racism and bigotry whenever we encounter them, regardless of what it may cost us.

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Descend to Ascend

by Isaiah DuPree (@visual__arrest on ig)

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They always stare

In disbelief

When I release truth

From the tongue

How dare I

Be more

Than a body

Built for their consumption

How dare I

Not subscribe

To stereotypes

They invented

Yet poison

My people

Who am I

To do more

To know more

To be more

Than they ever dreamed

I am the root

I am the reason

I am the reckoning

You are a drop

Questioning an ocean

How dare you

From Morocco to Manhattan

Original collage by Isaiah DuPree

Motherland meets Myrtle Broadway 🌿 A Rwandan woman walks tall across a busy Brooklyn street. The world is an enormous place, yet connected beyond ways we can imagine.This collage was made using original pictures I took in Kibuye, Rwanda, and New York City. These lands are not disconnected. No land is. Migration is human, making humanity the bridge. This is the art of Visual Arrest. Do not resist.

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He brings the sunset

Stars in his eyes

Moon on his skin

Wrapped in darkness

We bloom at night 

- Isaiah DuPree

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