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Capturing America’s Racial Zeitgeist, One Week at a Time

David G. Brown, political cartoonist for the Los Angeles Sentinel, the city’s oldest Black newspaper, reflects on the art of racial dissent. An exhibit at the Watts Towers showcases his work.

by Erin Aubry Kaplan


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