Last Night's "No Indictment" Visual Rage: Ferguson's, Twitter's, Ours & Everybody Else's
This prime time, night time, #Ferguson cable countdown a disgrace and an insult to all Americans
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Prejudice in Ferguson: Zun Lee's White Cop
Suddenly, the agent of the state is more another young man, one out there alone, a little bit vulnerable perhaps.
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Looking Down on "Would-Be Immigrants": An Illustration for our Times
Isn't it interesting how the white folks so naturally claim ascendency by their "higher ground?"
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The Ferguson Bigger Picture: Tokenism at Best
With all eyes on Ferguson to find out if Darren Wilson will be indicted for shooting Michael Brown, what these photos address is perhaps a more intractable problem: the enduring lack of representation and the symbolism in its place.
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On those Viral Photos of African Migrants atop the Melilla Golf Course Fence
In this version of the photo, however, there is one element that makes quite a difference. It's that the golfer on the left seems to notice the men scaling the fence.
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About Race and those Ebola Handheld Thermometer Pictures on Western News Sites
Given the “loaded nature” of the objects and the situation, there are certainly ways to capture a scene like this that is not only more sensitive (and more mundane), but steers clear of the exploitive associations to race and violence.
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News Photos: Has Lack of Context Reached a Tipping Point? (And Ferguson Protesters Did WHAT w US Flag?!)
Essentially what we have from a media standpoint — a picture worth a thousand words, and the caption not that many -- are black people rampaging with Old Glory.
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Obola: Visual Attacks on Obama Pick Up Where Kenya/Muslim Slurs Left Off
Almost seven years down the road from the election of the first black American president, in many respects it seems we're back where we started.
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And We'll Get Back to Those Slain Black Youths Right After Baseball
It’s a troubling commentary on our cultural and media priorities that the civil rights story and the playoff hoopla have been so seamlessly grafted.
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What That Picture From Michael Brown's Funeral Does That Few Photos Ever Do
If we're talking about the tone of a news photo, which we often do, we're either addressing its visual gradations or it's emotional quality, not something audible.
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Ferguson: White Fantasies
I was completely captivated by this white male cop helping the white female cop strap on her helmet, the trunk and the doors of the patrol car protecting "the couple" like a dressing room.
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Why I like the Businessweek Scott Olson Ferguson Cover
Perhaps it’s because of how it breaks from the unrelenting theme of the white police force versus the young black male.
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The Video of the Killing of Kajieme Powell and the Killing of Michael Brown
Don't let people label this a freak coincidence considering how tweaked St. Louis police must be over the anger in the streets in Ferguson.
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Losing Michael Brown to the Spectacle? — #Ferguson and the #Press
If the images and the tension, as seen through the photos and the media lens, felt more raw and spontaneous last week, I'm finding myself scaling back my diet of reporting and waiting for news.
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On that Picture of Obama Dancing During the Ferguson Turmoil
Until white right-wing critics suddenly become the official arbiters of political correctness, let's just say the President has many roles to play in public.
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Irony of Ironies: Ferguson PD Offers Surveillance Pics of Michael Brown as “Smoking Gun"
Because when you step back, this photo impugns the intent of the Ferguson police and just lends more credence to the fear that they, along with that "named officer," have blood on their hands.
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Beyond the Hoodie: Michael Brown's Extended Arms
After the Michael Brown killing, the symbolism that emerges as standing for the systemic dehumanization of young black males is the gesture of extending one's arms to the sky.
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