Board Organizing at Northrup King
Photo: Chioma Uwagwu, courtesy of Memorialize The Movement.
Author: Sheila Regan
Last summer, Kelly formed Memorialize the Movement, a group that is dedicated to preserving this work. It was an effort mirrored by another young Black woman, Kenda Zellner-Smith, who started her own grassroots group, Save the Boards, around the same time. They learned about each other’s work when they were both featured in an article by the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s Alicia Eler last July. Now, they share a storage facility and are working in collaboration with the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery. With support from a team of researchers with backgrounds in museum studies or curatorial work from the University of St Thomas, they plan to present an exhibition in May of the boards in a Minneapolis park, near where Floyd was killed.
