For this week’s photo share, I wanted to share a picture about #NODAPL based on our week’s discussion in class, found here: https://mashable.com/2016/12/07/standing-rock-nodapl-youth/#WkGvKvDrDqqJ.

What I found most intriguing is the belief of mni wiconi, the belief that water is life and should therefore be granted similar rights as to not…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I wanted to share a picture of #MeToo supporter, Terry Crews, found here: https://www.dailyedge.ie/terry-crews-gave-an-emotional-testimony-of-his-alleged-sexual-assault-4094137-Jun2018/. Terry Crews started another dialogue of the #metoo movement, speaking about male harassment and sexual assault. Many people across…[Read more]

For this week’s share, I decided to share a Feb. 2018 photo of the ‘Rest in Power’ documentary, based on Trayvon Martin and his fatal encounter with George Zimmerman, found in an article here: https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/07/30/five-years-in-hearing-the-voices-of-black-lives-matter/

This documentary, co-produced by Jay-Z, shows the tragic…[Read more]

For this week, I’m choosing to share a picture of Colin Kaepernick, the former 49er’s Super Bowl starting quarterback, to show the theme of protest we went through this week, found here: https://www.sbnation.com/2019/2/15/18226674/colin-kaepernick-eric-reid-nfl-settlement-protest

Although we have previously shared and already discussed somewhat…[Read more]

For this week, I chose to select a picture of my J. Cole’s album, 4 Your Eyez Only. In the album, J. Cole comments on several issues of society that continuously holds down the Black community. Racial inequality, the prison industrial complex, the war on drugs, and selling drugs in order to provide for family due to no financial opportunities, a…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I chose to share a picture of Huey Newton (found here: https://medium.com/@merricatherine/huey-p-newtons-interview-with-the-movement-magazine-1968-a328e6b78c32 ) from an interview in 1968. Among the themes we discussed in class this week, Richard Aoki and the Black Panther Party were discussed for their work in a…[Read more]

I chose this image that I found in this article by Eugene Puryear, from July 3, 2014, to reflect some ideals & philosophies of the important figures we studied this week.: https://liberationschool.org/the-civil-rights-and-black-power-movements . The people in this image are all unified and ready to fight for what they believed in, raising their f…[Read more]

For my image this week, I selected Dr. MLK meeting Malcolm X and sharing a handshake with each other, taken during a Senate Debate during the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Source: Marion S. Trikosko/ Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.). Throughout the class week, we discussed the ideals and philosophies of both…[Read more]