![]() ![]() President Obama speaks on Trayvon’s killing for the first time, saying, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” Geraldo Rivera says on Fox & Friends that Trayvon’s hoodie was as much responsible for his death as Zimmerman. Suddenly, the counterculture found itself with a new street-style standard that could be idiosyncratic by way of color, size, patches, shredding, band logos, safety pins, skulls and crossbones, bleaching, or whatever you wanted to add to say “Fuck you!” and punk-rockers in NYC adopted it, the sweatshirt with a hood became a symbol of disruption. ![]() A staple of hip-hop culture, the hoodie represented defiance, the down low, discretion, and dignity. Then, in 1973, the beat dropped in the Bronx, and the hoodie became the uniform of MCs, stickup kids, graffiti artists, and b-boys. It soon became popular with athletes and laborers in the Northeast because the added fabric served as a form of protection against the elements and later with high-school athletes, who would wear their schools’ logos and crests on their chests. It was born in the 1930s at Champion when the clothing company that made sweatshirts attached a hood. It has served as a vehicle for both this country’s dreams (athleticism, higher education, luxury) and denials (counterculture, anti-Establishment, racial injustice). The history of the hoodie aligns with America’s divisions of class, race, and identity. Lindsay Peoples-Wagner and Morgan Jerkins This special issue attempts to tell the story of the first decade of Black Lives Matter, the movement - as well as the country it moved. It is, at the same time, a specific collection of organizations and people whose decisions have attracted both applause and criticism whose actions have been a source of intrigue whose personal relationships have both strengthened and splintered under the stress and exposure. Ten years later, “Black Lives Matter” has grown from a hashtag to a protester’s cry to a cultural force that has reshaped American politics, society, and daily life. On February 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, because as a Black boy walking in a gated community, he was deemed “suspicious.” Zimmerman’s acquittal appalled a nation often willfully blind to the vulnerability of living while Black. Courtesy of Deborah Roberts, Stephen Friedman Gallery London and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles. Deborah Roberts, One of Many (2022), mixed-media collage on paper, 22-by-15 inches.Īrt: Deborah Roberts for New York Magazine. ![]()
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