Black Survival Guide Terry Marshall by Victoria Vallis

Black Survival Guide Terry Marshall by Victoria Vallis On the University of Nevada, Reno campus, the Reno Justice Coalition, which formed in the fall of 2014, helps students to explore activism and community involvement. The most recent exhibition the Reno Justice Coalition presented was to bring awareness of persons whose deaths were attributed to police brutality, vigilantism, and hate crimes. The purpose of the Reno Justice Coalition is to have a voice on campus about racism and other forms of social injustice. It was created to have a forum to talk about these issues and do something about it, because there are students here who care about these things and want change. The “Week of ACTION” gave the Reno Justice Coalition the opportunity to bring in several individuals, including members of the American Civil Liberties Union and activist Terry Marshall, who has been working with the Black Lives Matter campaign, all in an effort to encourage the Reno community to commit to social change. During the Reno Justice Coalition's National week of action, Terry Marshall spoke on how social media and the arts influence activism against police brutality and racism. As a response to the current state of race relations in the U.S., he has designed a multimedia project called "The Black Body Survival Guide." This is a guide as the owner of a black body for surviving in the U.S. He believes that this is one of the best ways to expose Racial Injustice in America. This satirical guide is meant to comment on the violence against black people being perpetuated, and raise our consciousness about the drastic nature of racial relations in the United States. Hence, sparking a movement to change the perceptions of black bodies and to increase awareness of social injustice.