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Collected Item: “Stay Home, Wash Your Hands, BLM”

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Stay Home, Wash Your Hands, BLM

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

photograph of a poster, Jersey City, NJ

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I posted the original of this poster a few weeks ago, and I was happy to see that it has been modified with "BLM - Spectemur agendo," the second part of which seems to be Latin meaning, "Let us be judged by our acts."

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#covid-19 #BlackLivesMatter

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dylanegon.store

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Dylan Egon created the poster -- I didn't know his name when I uploaded the first picture.

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2020-06-07
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