Adding more vibrancy to Philly’s artistic identity

The social unrest that followed the 2020 murder of George Floyd took a heavy toll on many. For so many Black men and boys, this murder resonated in a way that has become familiar over the course of the past years, and even decades.  For Nazeer Sabree, he remembers less than a decade earlier when Trayvon Martin was murdered. Sabree was 16 at the time, and recalled that being the first moment he saw that type of injustice.  “I remember that feeling when I was young, and I was asking questions like, ‘how do younger Black men and boys feel about what’s going on in the world around them? And the things we see on social media?’” said Sabree. In addition to those questions, he also uses his work to talk about mental health within the Black community.