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UChicago Arts and Public Life

Posted inVisual Arts, Washington Park

Were You There?

by Lauren Gurley October 16, 2013October 16, 2013

“I’m a black boy with a bag of candy. You roamin’ with a gun.” These are the words that anyone sitting on the Garfield Green Line station platform on Saturday night heard emanating from the Arts Incubator across the street. These words are also the lyrics from a song called “groun(d),” a tribute to Trayvon […]

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