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“Art is not a thing, it is a way” said Elbert Hubbard, an artist. And it's true, art is a way of liberating oneself, of communicating, and of denouncing. Throughout History, committed artists have shed light on the flaws and wrongdoings of our society. Their fight to denounce the numerous existing injustices has been particularly significant these last few years. So looking at the center of the world, how have American artists denounced injustice over the past 60 years? Let’s answer this question with 3 examples. Our first point is racial discrimination! Nowadays, prejudices linked to people's origin or social status are openly denounced. Lumet, in his movie 12 Angry Men, in 1957, portrayed the racial division in the US, with a jury judging a Puerto Rican. The 10th juror, a white man, explains that this trial is giving them the opportunity to smack them down. Who are “them”? I quote “that kid on trial, his type”. But the 8th juror tells him it is a prejudice, and that “prejudice obscures the truth”. We go from a close-up to a wide shot, to see that the others have their backs on him, following his biased speech. So artists used cinema because well chosen angles and poignant script give the public a powerful representation of the real world. But, because its purpose is to entertain people first, some things might be exaggerated in the cinema. Moreover, sometimes, what is on the screen only superficially impacts us. War is also an injustice worth talking about. Nick Ut, with his black and white photograph, “The Terror of War”, revealed the black mirror of reality, by focusing on the Vietnam War in 1972. It shows panicked faces of children in the foreground, fleeing for their lives. The fact that they are this young and that there is that little naked girl, show that war doesn't spare innocents. And the fog on the background, created by a dropped bomb almost seems to catch up to them. This immediately stirs our emotions. So artists used photographs because they capture all the beauty and atrocity of a frozen moment, which will mark our memories, and become testimonies. Still, we could reproach that a photograph is only a part of a whole situation. Also, picturing people in distress raises the issue of the ethics of photography. The final point is physical discrimination! It is that situation we can observe in Raquel Jaramillo Palacio’s novel of 2012, “Wonder”. It tells the story of August, a young boy who had an apparent disability. Here we enter into the thoughts of his classmates, whom the writer used as a mirror of society. Despite knowing that he is just a kid, most of them treated him differently, because they were focusing on his condition. So we feel empathy for him but are revolted by the attitude of others. So the artists used their pen, because it allows us to enter into the thoughts of the protagonists and then to have a deep reflection on our own attitude. But books also raise a problem: accessibility. We can observe a diminishing interest into novels, because some can’t read or prefer effortless sources. In summary, we have seen that artists dispose of many ways to denounce injustice. They used their skills and stood up. But it is sometimes not enough to generate a real change.