Here are revolutionaries who, in their death or retirement, have been used to represent the sorts of things they spent their lives opposing.
By Stokely Baksh and Jamilah King
It’s a sad, but predictable cycle: an outspoken person of color captures the world’s attention with a powerful call for justice—sometimes offering his or her life to the cause—and years later winds up on some well-meaning kid’s t-shirt. Or on the walls of your local Apple Store. And now, on the side of a Navy cargo ship. Over the past four decades, it seems that nothing sells better than revolution...[continued]
