April Shipp’s “Strange Fruit” is a 10-by-10 foot piece of fabric that beautifully and richly commemorates the lives of those she calls “my 5000 souls.” Shipp’s tribute to lives lost to lynching debuted this past Sunday amid 60 other colorful quilts. The annual display takes spot every February at the church of Detroit Unity Temple. […]The post Black woman designs Strange Fruit quilt to memorialize 5000 lynching victims appeared first on theGrio.
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