#shawnpowell

[barbarapolster]

Congrats to @abattoirgallery, @laurenyeager_studio and @shawnkpowell on this beautiful exhibition ✨🍾. So excited for this thoughtful exhibition space to have joined the landscape and can’t wait to see what’s to come! #abattoirgallery #cle #shawnpowell #laurenyeager (at Abattoir Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD4EroAl2ge/?igshid=1y0hkc3ojwxyb

[barbarapolster]

Congrats to @abattoirgallery, @laurenyeager_studio and @shawnkpowell on this beautiful exhibition ✨🍾. So excited for this thoughtful exhibition space to have joined the landscape and can’t wait to see what’s to come! #abattoirgallery #cle #shawnpowell #laurenyeager (at Abattoir Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD4EigHFfyR/?igshid=1hgjwub8jlj7z

[tkriddick]

#Repost from @king.jay.85 with @regram.app ... Not all heroes wear capes and on #September11th, 2001, 12 brave NYC firefighting heroes gave their lives, along with countless others, to save the lives of those in the #WorldTradeCenter. Today, and forever, we honor the lives of #LeonSmithJr, #ShawnPowell, #KeithGlascoe, #AndreFletcher, #RonnieHenderson, #GerardBaptiste, #KeithroyMaynard, #WilliamHenry, #KarlJoseph, #TarelColeman, #VernonCherry, #VernonRichard. We will #NeverForget! Never! #FDNY #BlackFirefighters #BlackHeroes _______________________ "Leon Smith was one of 12 black firefighters to lose his life that day. Their stories have gone largely untold, their faces rarely shown in the photo exhibits or memorial projects dedicated to the fallen firefighters. The FDNY received widespread public support & good will after the attack. But the department has long struggled to recruit & retain firefighters of color. The city’s fire department, boasting about 14,000 members, is overwhelmingly white. Only about 3 percent of the force’s firefighters are black, roughly the same proportion that served during the attacks and in recent decades. (In an eerie coincidence, the 12 black firefighters who were killed on 9/11 represent just about 3 percent of the FDNY’s total deaths.) Smith says Leon was harassed often in his early days in the Fire Department of New York. “They gave Leon a hard time,” she recalled. “They put oil in his boots, took the truck and ran over his boots. They tried to destroy Leon’s spirit. But he was a strong-willed young man.” Black firefighters and critics of the FDNY say that racism and discrimination have long run rampant in the fire department.Shortly after 9/11, the Vulcan Society, an organization for New York’s black firefighters, sent out fliers announcing a memorial ceremony for the 12 who had been killed. Shortly after, several of the fliers were defaced. Someone wrote “Lick me” on one, & “What about the white guys?” on another. On a flier, someone scrawled over the guest list, which included Al Sharpton & former New York City mayor David Dinkins, replacing their names with those of rap stars.” https://www.instagram.com/p/B2UAnBCl-Te/?igshid=yy6ti7ynsvsa