The new “Impact of Images” campaign includes the celebrated work of Black photographers and photojournalists from the civil rights and post-civil rights era alongside work from photographers of the Black Lives Matter generation.
Devin Allen admits that he occasionally behaved like a knucklehead, growing up in Baltimore. But he was not so irreverent as a tenth grader that he could see an image of Emmett Till’s open casket and not find it arresting.
The story of the 14-year-old Black boy who was lynched in Mississippi became widely known because his mother, today!
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