She was Sleeping!
The Civil Rights Movement did not end systemic racism. People of color are disproportionately impacted by police brutality, racial violence, and sentencing inequities in the criminal justice system. In March, we see the 1963 Children’s Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama, where police used fire hoses and attack dogs on child protestors (1). Six days in Cincinnati chronicles protests in the aftermath of police shooting an unarmed 19 year old black man (2). “The Walker” depicts protests in the wake of the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri (3). Although fictionalized, many comics about police brutality draw heavily on real-world events and contemporary social ills (4, 5, 6). Lest we think the problem is solely an American one, Flic recounts the killing of Adama Traore by police in France (7).
