MUCE/Cendino Teme -No More Blues
No More Blues is a compilation of images by photographer Sandino Teme, of a 2013 protest ignited in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin. The protest and exhibition mark an important contribution to the dialogue of the value of Black life in America and around the globe. More importantly, this exhibition captures the zeal, tenacity, and fearlessness of young individuals conveying a message of urgent change and immediate action. Seven years after this exhibition, The American people find themselves back on the front lines of a movement for social justice with the demand for eradication of a systematic virus that gives way to violence against black bodies with no accountability. The justice movement at present is intertwined with an impending economic crisis and global pandemic, bringing clear awareness to the cultural inequities caused by racism.
The resounding call for No More Blues from the boys in Blue continues to be relevant in 2020 as the core foundation of why this injustice exists has yet to be eradicated. Systematic racism, set in motion during slavery, reconstructed and reestablished through Jim Crow, lives on through its descendants. It must be dismantled if Black (and Brown) people are ever to be free.
The exhibition No More Blues is my contribution to the movement for social justice. May there be a time in history more peaceful than now. This is the last stronghold for civil discourse.
