Marima
I’m Still Here Doing It My Way
oil on canvas
Marima is West African, meaning gift of god. She’s seen times change, and changed with the times. Her enduring beauty and strength are lasting. Wisdom has come with time and there were costs that have been paid. She owes no one. She was born in Mississippi in 1962 at the time when miscegenation laws banned interracial marriage and interracial sex between whites and members of other races. Her birth was illegal. Not until 1967, did the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rule that in the case of Loving v. Virginia, the miscegenation laws were unconstitutional.
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Size- 30x40in
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