Yearning for Freedom
In Ming Smith’s photo of Amina and Amiri Baraka, we can see the interdependence of Black art and political struggle.
Winter 2026
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The Pain of Others
It is sheer sentimentality to ask photographs to do the work of politics and to make the choices that we cannot.
The Nameless 
“Most of those who made the movement weren’t the famous; they were the faceless. They weren’t the noted; they were the nameless—the marchers with tired feet, the protestors beaten back by billy clubs and fire hoses, the unknown women and …
