Terry Marshall is a social justice activist and community organizer who works with the Healthcare Education Project, the Hip-Hop Media Lab, and the Boston Youth Organizing Project. He turns to the struggle of social justice and talks about the social media impacts on racism and activism against police brutality in Ferguson, New York. The project Black Body Survival Guide is about the race relations in America, which satirizes the problem of black inequalities or unequal treatment in a humorous way. Marshall believes that this is one of the best ways to reveal racial injustice in a post-racial world in America. The project arouse people to become conscious of the racial injustice of the American society because the violence against black people exist among the society. He states that we all know life is hard these days and how to survive in a black body in the project. He gives some black body survival tips to guide themselves for survival when they are being abused and policed such as “only wear a hoodie at home”, “keep your hands, eyebrows, feet visible and raised at all times”.
Marshall also mentions Obama campaign as a symbol of changing terrain. Obama campaign reveals the leadership position and competitiveness in the black community as well as the racial relations in the American society. Obama’s represents the new black middle class and his success quietly changing some deep-rooted features about the lower position and racial discrimination within the black community. Marshall created Intelligent Mischief which is a hack lab to solve social problems. He discusses the activism against racism and police brutality that has developed through storytelling and social media.
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