The photo I chose from Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn is an info graphic that displays the environmental risks that people of color deal with regularly. The graphic makes the point clear, if you are a person of color you are on average far more likely to deal with environmental health exposures than a white person. This relates to segregation and its…[Read more]

This photo of Simone Manuel by Adam Pretty is of a candid picture of her receiving her gold medal in swimming. Simone won her medal in swimming for the Rio Olympics of 2016. She is the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming ever. The powerful stereotype that black people can’t swim has stuck in America for years. It perpetuates…[Read more]

Here is a picture of the United States government sending fully armed National Guard units to disperse those protesting at Standing Rock. It seems ridiculous to use military forces to dispel protectors of their own land because it is. They are encroaching on their land by building a disastrous pipeline that will soil the water and dirt. All of…[Read more]

The picture I chose from Wes Schultz is of a fireman and a trail of prisoners behind him, which can be interpreted through the difference of color in their protective gear. There is another difference between  the firemen and the men behind him, the fireman chose this line of work and the prisoners did not. Reducing sentences is incredibly…[Read more]

I chose a political cartoon for this week’s theme. After further reflection from discussion in class, I realized that the death tool was tremendous and unnecessary and had that happened in say, New York, then America would go mad. People often find themselves forgetting that Puerto Ricans are Americans, I myself am guilty even though I visited it…[Read more]

I got this picture from the Underwood Archives. The Freedom Riders were a group of interracial rights activists that rode a Greyhound bus throughout the South, ignoring “Whites Only” and “for Colored” signs alike. This picture in particular was when their bus was firebombed, demonstrating the intense violence and resistance they faced for acting…[Read more]

I got my photo from Johnny Miller, a freelance photographer. While this picture is of South Africa, it struck a note in me. The photo is a beautiful green golf course right aside a shabby neighborhood. It reminds me of Palmdale, where I am from. Palmdale is a minority-majority city consisting primarily of Black and Hispanic populations. On the…[Read more]

I chose this image I found from Halifax Media Co-op in relation to this week’s theme of space. A graphic that depicts the silhouettes of what appear to be two colored people, most likely a mother and her child staring at the industrial site in front of them. A pure white factory that spews pollutants into the open black sky. The graphic is in…[Read more]