On that Rare Photo Meditating on the GOP Campaign and Race
It's not altogether unusual to see African-Americans at GOP campaign rallies. It is, though, to find the rare photo that calls it out.
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On that Startling Flint Photo of 3 African-American Kids Toting Water
Showing kids who could, if not for the skin color, be coming home to Park Avenue from private schools brings home how universal the need for water is.
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MLK: March 25, 1965
What makes the MLK photo seem so immediate and contemporary is how much it feels like a selfie. For a news photo, it’s unusually intimate even now.
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That Photo of the Officer at the Laquan McDonald Protest Last Night
Ultimately, what’s significant about the photo is its S&M vibe.
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Who’s French Now? The Most Political, and Poignant Aftermath Photos from the Paris Attack.
If the attack changed the way France sees its Muslims, its foreign born and even non-whites, how did that inform the immediate imagery?
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The Pope’s US Trip as it Touched on Race
Although the Pope typically addresses injustice in the context of class, his concern over racial strife was implicit in those key quotations from MLK.
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What Lesson Suspending Kids for Wearing Confederate Flag?
Does the suspension of Christiansburg, Virginia teenagers actually undermine academic discipline and miss a perfect teaching moment?
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On 9/11: A New Ground Zero Photo. Five Kids on Bikes.
This remarkable photo, taken 9/12/01, is even more interesting appearing in a year wracked by racial protest and the emergence of #blacklivesmatter.
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Climb Every Mountain, Ford Every Stream: Beyond the Humanitarian Response to the Great Migration
If humanitarian fervor and photos of the migrant crisis dominated last week like nothing else, this largely invisible image served cleverly, if silently, as a counterpoint.
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When Different Wire Photos on Same Story Address Different Racial Audiences: “Go Set a Watchman”
Who, between these photos, is invited to see themselves as Watchman’s audience?
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On the Photo Coverage of the One Year Anniversary of the Ferguson Crisis and the Death of Michael Brown
I was looking and hoping for imagery that got underneath the more stereotyped depiction of violence, anger and despair.
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Killer Cop Arraigned in Cincinnati (Confused by How Much Social Media Thrives on Shame)
One thing the shaming obscures is the extreme moral contrast between Tensing and the cops.
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Classic Misdirection: The State’s Sanctimonious Sandra Bland Jail Video Play-by-Play
If what we're presumed to have now is full visual disclosure, I'd say the state has an even bigger credibility problem on its hands than it had before.
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Good Cop, Bad KKKOP
"White racists aren't racist because they hate blacks; they're racist because they don't know who they are without blacks."
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The Last Chapter of S. Carolina's Confederate Flag Debate
These photos stood out to me as being particularly symbolic in still another historic week for human rights.
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Amazing Grace: Key Scenes From Obama to Newsome, ACA to Pride
And with the funerals and the dignity emanating from Charleston in the aftermath of the racist church massacre in Charleston, what with Obama's sermon, Bree Newsome and the two momentous Supreme Court decisions, by the weekend, it was like "ACA Meets Pride Meets Black Lives Matter."
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That Less Circulated Statehouse Photo Honoring Clementa Pinckney
As we witness Pinckney’s colleagues grieving for him in session, we feel for him, too, as a member.
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