Between 2014 and 2016, I spent time working on long term projects which focused on the effects that racism and slavery have on Black life, shared experiences, and generational ties. Creating this map was a way for me to visually organize some of the research I’d done around Black and brown people who had been abused and/or killed by the police.
There are 61 people represented on this map, yet this is only a small percentage as official data on police involved shootings is incomplete.
Surrounding the map are 61 short bios and information about each case and person killed.
