Obama as Chicago Keepsake — A Unique Photo Farewell
Seeing how people in Chicago have saved and displayed Obama's image or memorabilia expresses his impact and farewell in a more personal way.
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MLK Day Meets the Trump Inauguration
We felt a special obligation this year to find just the right photo to commemorate Martin Luther King Day.
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Take It Down (LEAVE IT UP): On Congress Tiff over Ferguson Painting
Is this art dispute a weird throwback to the culture wars or a sign of things to come?
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Meet the Racists!
If the racists are trying to mask their hatred, the NY Times story makes for the kind of advertising you just can't buy.
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A Brief Visual History of the Bullet-Riddled Emmett Till Memorial Sign
It's important to place the viral Facebook photograph of the riverbank sign in a historical perspective. That starts with the famous casket photo published in Jet after Till's family insisted that he be seen.
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Trump Rally Wear Update: Black Guns Matter
It takes a particularly provocative t-shirt these days to merit special attention. Like this one.
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Not Your Father’s Black Panthers: On Election ’16 and the Youngs
In this bleak campaign season, it’s wonderful to be reminded how much less of our old baggage young people are carrying around.
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News Photos of Police Protests: More Profiling of Black Males
What we're seeing in these photo galleries is a replay of the stereotype associating young black men with criminal and savages.
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What’s Already Incredible about the African-American History Museum
From John Carlos and TommySmith to Colin Kaepernick, the dynamic of this museum is already poignant to observe.
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What Do They Have to Lose? And Other Scenes from the Trump Debacle
With Trump all about amplifying stereotypes, Reuters has surfaced an image that primes the palette.
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Baton Rouge, the Convention and the Trump Show
Ben Lowy's photo anticipates a call-and-response between Cleveland, Baton Rouge and Dallas by a newly themed “law-and-order" Trump.
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Baton Rouge to Dallas: Our Twitter/Instagram Review
From Baton Rouge to St. Paul to Dallas, these have been two extraordinarily difficult weeks in the civil life of America. Here is a timeline of tweets and posts of what we saw and thought over this wrenching time.
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Baton Rouge: Channeling the Fire with Amazing Grace
Mindful of the smoldering racial and political atmosphere in the country right now, the photo's symbolism reaches far beyond a single instance of goodwill.
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Police Killings: On the Decision Not to Watch
Whether we watch the videos or not, witnessing requires us to acknowledge that racist violence is there to be seen.
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On the Alton Sterling Daily News Cover. (Graphic, Yes.)
It might feel like there is nothing more to say, but it also feels like there was more to show.
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On the Raised-Fist Photo by Black Women Cadets at West Point
The fact is, this photo channels the culture of uprising and black activism just as much as it does unity, pride and sisterhood.
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Brian Palmer: Why Does This Old Cemetery Matter?
This is the 2nd post in a series with photographer Brian Palmer on the South and an abandoned African-American cemetery near Richmond known as East End.
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Race Optics and the 2016 Academy Awards
Looking more closely at the images, the way the Academy Awards program navigated the race issue wasn't nearly as slick as it seemed.
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