A New Exhibit in Baltimore Asks: What is the Value of a Black Life in America?

10/19/20

By Ed Gunts, Baltimore Fishbowl

What is the value of a Black life in America?

That’s the fundamental question posed by a new exhibit in Baltimore, created in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and designed as a commentary on 400 years of systemic racism in America.

“Society’s Cage” is the name of a 15-foot by 15-foot pavilion that was erected this summer on the National Mall in Washington as both an educational exhibit and a work of public art, forged in the aftermath of the killings by police officers of George Floyd in Minnesota and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky.

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