On a still unknown terrace in Naples stands the new mural of Jorit, the Neapolitan street artist whose works have repeatedly attracted the attention of international audiences for the deep realism with which he addresses issues of social and political relevance.
Only in January, in fact, on a building in Barra, in the easternmost part of Naples, he had created a mural starring Martin Luther King, an icon of the struggle for the civil rights of African Americans in the United States in the ’60s.

Martin Luther King also appears in the mural on which the artist is working right now, and he does so by standing next to George Floyd, the African American citizen whose death at the hands of the white policeman Derek Chauvin has triggered protests throughout the country, but also in Europe and Italy where several demonstrations have been announced in the coming days.

Alongside George Floyd, who has become a symbol of the fight against racism and “white supremacy”, Lenin, Angela Davis and Malcolm X, of whom the artist, who used his social channels to communicate his new work, has posted some of the most famous quotes.

A riot is the language of the unheard – Martin Luther King