(Source: Museum of City of New York Inc) Sasha Alexander, Linda Sarsour, and Marian Thom, 2016. Images from the Activist New York Interactives, Museum of the City of New York. Museums are often tasked with examining the past, but how do they represent the present? As part of the update to the Museum's ongoing Activist New York exhibition-including a new original documentary film, City of Movement, and a section on nuclear disarmament activism from the 1950s to the 1980s-we recently overhauled our content that speaks to current activism in the city. In an era of increased visibility for grassroots movements, ranging from #BlackLivesMatter, which opposes racial violence and disparities in the...
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