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Keith Lamont Scott and the Legacy of Police Violence

A photograph of a bloody hand on a police shield underscores the ongoing struggle for African American citizenship.

Don't Touch Our Hair

In protest of policing black women and girls’ hair, Solange’s album cover image is a powerful assertion of ownership.

Separate Cars on the Open Road

Amid the fight for desegregation, a revelatory portrait by Robert Frank conveys the freedom of travel.

In California, Trees as Witness and Living Memorial

Elizabeth Huber reflects on Ken Gonzales-Day and the history of lynching in California.

The Cotton Bowl and the Super Bowl

Merging football with twentieth-century sharecropping, Hank Willis Thomas traces the commodification of black bodies.

Envisioning the Right to Vote

How do Bruce Davidson’s photographs of the Selma march in 1965 find their echo in the modern debate over voter ID laws?

Vision & Justice Online: Mark Bradford’s Pride of Place

The multidisciplinary artist investigates myths of black masculinity through costume, performance, and an iconic basketball jersey.

Vision & Justice Online: Renée Mussai in Conversation with Victor Peterson II

The curator of the London gallery Autograph ABP discusses the intersections between photography, human rights, and identity politics.
Still from An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, 2012

Vision & Justice Online: 3 Reflections on Cinema and Archives

Catherine Gund, Shola Lynch, and Franklin Leonard discuss pioneers of cinema, African American archives, and the definitive films about black experience.
Cover of Richard Avedon and James Baldwin’s Nothing Personal (New York: Atheneum, 1964)

Vision & Justice Online: Nothing Personal

Was Richard Avedon and James Baldwin’s collaborative photobook a luxury object or a ruthless indictment of American culture?
Ming Smith, Sun Ra Space II, New York, 1978

Vision & Justice Online: Ming Smith and the Kamoinge Workshop

Routinely excluded from the mainstream art world, in the 1960s, a group of African American photographers formed a collective to promote their work.

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