While images of violent clashes and looting so often dominate media coverage of the protests, quieter moments of peace, learning, and understanding can go overlooked. Love photography as much as…
The idea that trauma can be passed down from generation to generation is a new-ish one. The concept of intergenerational trauma was first recognized around 1966, as psychologists began to…
Thousands of Americans took to the streets this weekend in nationwide protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, but millions more sat at home, watching the protests unravel on…
Read this to understand what it would be like to have a real president in office now. On Monday morning, former President Barack Obama posted a statement on the wave…
If you’re not black and you have black friends whom you are only reaching out to now, be thoughtful about how you do it. As the continued momentum of this…
Mark Clennon, 32, is a photographer living in Harlem with his wife, and three-month-old daughter. On May 30, five days after George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis, Clennon went out to…
The past week has seen protests against police violence in dozens of major cities across the United States, including some of the biggest and most prolonged demonstrations in years. To…
Use the hashtag #BlackoutTuesday, not #BlackLivesMatter, they say, so vital voices are not drowned out Row after row of black squares populated many people’s Instagram feeds Tuesday morning, and a…
Standing in front of the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church as the scent of a chemical irritant hung in the air, President Trump had no words to share Monday from…
Nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man killed by a white police officer, are renewing attention to the ways that African Americans have been failed…