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8 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This wonderful image has been circulating — often without any credit about who created it. Here's the original Instagram post by artist Bria Goeller for Good Trubble: instagram.com/p/CHTJMbWBx6r/ Image
A Google image search didn't show the original source. But I was able to figure it out because some people were crediting artist Kara Walker. She posted on Instagram, saying that it wasn't her. instagram.com/p/CHTX7x-LDQZ/…
And someone commented on Walker's Instagram post, saying that the picture was by Bria Goeller for Good Trubble.
Also giving credit where credit is due: The shadow is based on the image of Ruby Bridges from Norman Rockwell's iconic 1963 painting "The Problem We All Live With." nrm.org/2011/05/norman… Image

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