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Economic Heritage, from the series The Reconciliation, 2024
Initially a crop grown and sold by Black farmers who were newly freed after the American civil war, the watermelon became a symbol of mockery and contempt by white people resentful of Black success. Chatmon’s imagery restores the fruit to its rightful place in the economic and cultural heritage of Black Americans and reclaims it as a source of pride
October 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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I’m not allowed to look at bread porn… there was an ‘incident’… I’m not allowed to talk about that either
March 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM