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Produced in collaboration with the photographer Jon Lopez, this short documentary profiles Rah Wiggins, coach of New York City’s most prolific street basketball team, The Sean Bell All-Stars. After the NYPD’s infamous killing of Sean Bell in 2006, Coach Wiggins renamed his team after his fallen friend. Sean Bell, as the team is now known, […]
EXCERPT I’ve posted several pieces of writing about this film elsewhere covering the process, the namesake, its significance to Unarmed. There’s even a dedicated website with more details and behind-the-scenes photos. And there are a million things I’m proud of about it, most notably the film itself, the collaboration with Jon Lopez, and also the trailer, the design, the poster, the reception.
Th heartbreaking story of Tyre Nichols led to another jersey design and with it the release of what I call the “soft” language of Unarmed.
Waking up to news of the police killing of Daunte Wright, 20, in a town near Minneapolis sent my emotions through the spin cycle. These events are both regular and unpredictable. As a rapid response, I created a jersey design within Instagram’s stories feature. Later in the day I learned that the artist Karine Varga, […]
Well, I probably won’t get to write a headline like that again. Journalist Ben Osborne made me comfortable enough to speak in my own language, to cry, and to wax on the talismanic quality of jerseys in my life, and then set it all up with a feathery sentence like this: Sports also carry the […]
Here’s a short documentary about the Fall Tour I did with Unarmed. It streamed as part of the YouTube Originals special Black Renaissance, alongside segments by Barack and Michelle Obama, Anderson.Paak, Killer Mike, Stacey Abrams, and other luminaries – a great honor. The segment played at the 55-minute mark, directly after a meditation on protest in […]