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Langston Allston is a painter and muralist from Louisiana, New Orleans. He has done BFA in painting, University of Illinois, 2014 and working as a guest artist for University of Illinois Action Research. He creates arts based on his own experience and stories by community people. His work reflects the shared moments which connects the past and present. In his paintings he tries to convey social message.

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The painting itself explains the police brutality against black people. The unjustified shootings of black men is rapidly increasing in United states. The mural explains an unarmed guy raining his hands in air but still gets killed. It also explains the biased opinions  of certain authorities to target certain communities and misuse of the power.

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A mural  devoted to Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, painted by Langston Allston. Alton Sterling a 37 year old black man was shot by cops. He wanted to show his support  by painting some meaningful art.

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It is painted in the neighborhood where people were mourning to the death of Sterling and some were protesting. So the placement of this painting catches attention. It conveys the idea that this area where black community live and if someone is going to support them they know where to go just by looking at these paintings

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Artist wanted to help in the cause and used his best skills to support it by visual art. Because the reaction of activism to sad events goes away really fast so artist did a great job to keep the protesters visually energized and plugged in. The need of visible objects is more important to leave a long lasting effect.

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It is always seen the human nature is combination of various psychological factors. Jealous, ego, selfishness, biased opinions all affect the judgments towards the character of other people. And people who have power to take advantage they take it to satisfy their ego. People in power always take it out on weak entities . The painting below is related to the Alton sterling killing.

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Where this painting is very effective in conveying the message on the other side it only specifies the one community. Even though the issue of police brutality might be more focused on black people but there might be some other communities this might be  happening too. Moreover it does not specifically mention cops in the mural. It just shows killing or saying stop killing us but does not show who's killing them

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To conclude, I would say that this mural painted by Langston is very effective. It delivers the message. Where it explains serious issues of cops brutal actions against black community on the other side it also empathize people to come forward for the people and grieving with them. It also motivate people to help in social cause so that we can save future of coming generations.

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/28/us/alton-sterling-videos/index.html

http://www.langstonallston.com/about/

http://www.langstonallston.com/page-cv/

http://www.langstonallston.com/murals/2017/4/7/rip-alton

http://www.langstonallston.com/murals/2017/4/7/lil-smurf