Chatting the Pictures: A Virus Trial Call to Arms
As the race intensifies to create a vaccine, this suggests that the risk-taking by young people during the COVID-19 crisis hasn’t all been self-serving.
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Chatting the Pictures: In Houston Hospital Fighting Covid, A Welcome Hug
With reassurance from national leaders in short supply, this highlight video emphasizes the ongoing threat of the virus and the power of emotional support.
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Chatting the Pictures: Obama Weighs Into 2020 Election on Behalf of John Lewis, Voting Rights
In this highlight video, we look at Barack Obama at the memorial service for John Lewis, and his potential impact on the upcoming presidential campaign.
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Chatting the Pictures: Black Lives Activist Replaces Slave Trader on English Monument
In this highlight video, we analyze the likeness of a Black Lives Matter activist atop a 125-year-old English monument. It's an especially powerful gender statement.
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Chatting the Pictures: Parents Fight Masks in Utah
In this highlight video, we find as much confusion and ambivalence as anger in Utah parents protesting a requirement students wear masks to fight COVID-19.
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Chatting the Pictures: Protest, Racial Justice, and Portland’s ”Wall of Moms”
This webcast looks at the militarized response to racial justice protest in Portland and the role of a largely white mothers group demonstrating there.
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Chatting the Pictures: Trump Mt. Rushmore; Gun Waving St. Louis Couple; Racial Protest Self Portrait
This webcast looks at the Trump Mt. Rushmore rally, the St. Louis couple that pointed weapons at demonstrators, and a racial justice self-portrait.
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Chatting the Pictures: 3 Signature Images of the George Floyd Protests
In this week's Chatting the Pictures, educator John Mason joins us to discuss key portraits from the protests following the killing of George Floyd.
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Chatting the Pictures: Here Are the Photos of People Suffering and Dying of Covid
This week, photographer Nina Berman joins us to discuss three images from our article, “Here Are the Photos of People Suffering and Dying of Covid.”
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Chatting the Pictures: Life and Death in New York; Distanced Mother’s Day; Restaurants Adapt
This webcast looks at a complex scene in a New York City park, distanced well-wishers at an LA nursing home, and a widely published COVID-era restaurant.
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Chatting the Pictures: Food Plant Workers at Risk; Politics and EMT; Arlington Precautions
Still focused on the pandemic, we look at a virus PR shot from Tyson Foods, a political photo from an EMT ride along, and Arlington honors with adjustments.
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Chatting the Pictures with Pete Souza: Presidential Photos in a Health Crisis
In the shadow of COVID-19, former White House photographer Pete Souza joins us to discuss four photos he took of Obama and Reagan handling health crises.
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Chatting the Pictures: More Pandemic—New York Harbor; Las Vegas Homeless; NYC ICU
This webcast on the pandemic looks at a symbolic scene in New York Harbor, a troubling Las Vegas shelter image, and an emotional Brooklyn hospital photo.
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Chatting the Pictures: Coronavirus Culture, From Vatican, to Apartment Block, to Corner Bar
This webcast looks at the Pope addressing an empty St. Peters Square, the social power of the Italian balcony, and young revelers before the lock-down.
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Chatting the Pictures: Coronavirus Politics–From the White House, to the Cafe, to the Gun Shop
This week, our webcast looks at a snapshot of the White House coronavirus task force, the virus and social class in a Rome cafe scene, and the run on guns.
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Chatting the Pictures: Virus Cover-up; Racial Politics in Selma; Women Covering the Weinstein Trial
This week, our webcast looks at a coronavirus photo from Washington, African-Americans making a campaign statement, and a tribute to woman journalists.
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Chatting the Pictures: Trump Bloomberg Golf Photo; Xi Masked; Elizabeth Warren’s Glass Ceiling
This week, we look at Trump and Bloomberg's gold game, China's President Xi and the coronavirus, and Elizabeth Warren campaigning.
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Chatting the Pictures: Pelosi Shreds Trump’s SOTU; Coronavirus on the Move; Impeachment Going Away
This week, we look at Pelosi tearing up Trump’s State of the Union speech, the spread of the coronavirus, and the shot summing up Trump’s impeachment trial.
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