Created specifically for the RESPOND show at Smack Mellon and then featured at SCOPE Art Fair, this painting links lynching to recent deaths of unarmed Black youth at the hands of police officers with impunity. This work puts the events of 2014 into a historical context, suggesting that, although the practice of hanging the NAACP banner ended, the legacy of lynching has not.

The show was reviewed by H. Cotter for the New York Times (excerpt):

"Reconciliation is a tone seldom struck in “Respond,” where a sense of anger and grievance feels fresh, even when projected back into history. A deftly brushed painting by Nicky Enright evokes an example of quietly and persistently furious protest art from the past: the black banner emblazoned with the words “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday” that the N.A.A.C.P. used to fly from the window of its Fifth Avenue headquarters between 1920 and 1938, whenever reports of racially based murders came in."