Time for change

This art print depicts a large portrait of a man resembling Martin Luther King Jr., overlaid on a black-and-white protest scene. A police officer stands in the foreground beside signs reading "I Am A Man" — a reference to the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike — and "Am I Next?", positioned above a crowd of protesters.

The piece is rooted in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its continuing reverberations, particularly the phenomenon legal scholar Michelle Alexander termed "the New Jim Crow" in her 2010 book of the same name. Alexander's central argument is that mass incarceration functions as a new system of racial control, one that persists even as formal segregation laws have ended. The "Am I Next?" text draws a direct line between the movement's original demands and present-day concerns about police violence and disproportionate incarceration.

Available in a 16x25 size, framed in black or unframed.