Around May, 2013 in the Florida public housing in the 9th Ward, New Orleans, LA, USA, a graffiti painting of Huey in a rattan chair was made by Brandan Odums, as part of “Project Be”.
“Project Be” is a public art work created by videographer, educator and artist Brandan Odums. Since May 2013, he has been painting graffiti-style murals inside the ruined remains of the Florida public housing development in the 9th Ward. His energetic spray-paintings depict many of the heroes of the civil rights movement, such as Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, James Baldwin and Gordon Parks.
“[…] Odums’ painting glints with a political edge as sharp as the windowpane shards that littler the floors throughout the buildings. Near one second-story window, Huey P. Newton, the Louisiana-born co-founder of the Black Panthers sat in a wicker chair holding a shotgun in one hand and a spear in the other. Beside him, an enormous revolver stretched across the wall surrounded by his quote: “The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.””
