Just released was a preview of next week’s MLK holiday cover for the iconic New Yorker magazine, already stirring up controversy. Hitting the newsstands will be epic cover art as The New Yorker Previews MLK, Brooklyn Cop, Garner, Trayvon Cover linking arm in arm, a la the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery.
The cover artist Barry Blitt behind The New Yorker Previews MLK, Brooklyn Cop, Garner, Trayvon Cover, has literally created a united front of slain icons, past and present. Martin Luther King Jr. takes strong center, with slain Brooklyn police detective Wenjian Liu to his left, Eric Garner to his right, Mike Brown over his left shoulder and Trayvon Martin over his right. (Wow.)
The artist had this on his mind for The New Yorker Previews MLK, Brooklyn Cop, Garner, Trayvon Cover:
“In New York and elsewhere, the tension between the police and the policed is at the center of things. Like Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, Martin Luther King was taken way too early. It is hard to believe things would have got as bad as they are if he was still around today.”
The New Yorker Previews MLK, Brooklyn Cop, Garner, Trayvon Cover and it will arrive right on time for the week of nationwide holiday honors to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It’s also right in the pocket for the “Selma” movie now showing in theaters.
RIP, #AllLivesMatter
