Front Pages That DIDN'T Turn the Charleston Shooter into a Poster Boy
We could stand for more recognition of those papers that largely ignored the perpetrator in favor of elevating the victims and affirming existing bonds.
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Charleston: For My Soul Is Full of Troubles
Time and time again, the psalmist asks God a simple but difficult question: Why?
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The Screen Shot to Consider BEFORE the Cop in McKinney Pulled his Gun on Black Teenagers
Perhaps it starts with questions like: who and where are the adults?
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Militarism and Race as Martin Parr Does the Derby
Beyond the jesting and the field day with hats, these two Parr photos from the Kentucky Derby feel a bit more political than usual.
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On the Viral Photo of the Baltimore Girl and the National Guardsman (and the Portland "Ferguson Hug")
It’s not just cozying up to the man.
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There's the Pennant Race, and Then There's Just Race: On the Pics from the Empty Orioles Game
Is it significant, then, in a city that is 63% black, that the photos of fans just beyond the gates aren't all that racially balanced?
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More Absurdity in Baltimore
Maybe the reporter knows something we don't because his reaction to this potentially explosive situation is primarily one of bemusement.
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Visual Politics of Profile Photos: Walter Scott and Michael Slager Side-by-Side
The examples are interesting in illustrating how, through distributed or pick-up photography, the visual media will visually represent and often stereotype by role, circumstance and manner as well as ethnicity and race.
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The Drought Doesn't Discriminate by Class or Ethnicity: Balazs Gardi in the Central Valley
After all the sensational and stereotyped coverage of the immigration issue, Gardi's photos parse Mother Nature from Beltway nature.
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Telling Moments From the Video of the White S. Carolina Police Officer Murdering a Black Man
What most stands out for me is Slager checking Scott for a pulse after the second officer just checked for one.
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How We Look at the Black Man Who May or May Not Have Been Shooting at Two Officers in Ferguson
One would hope that editors would understand the moral and political liability of framing Williams as a protester, tainting the rallies and protests in Ferguson by suggesting the shooting of the officers was intentional, retaliatory or racially-motivated.
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Milestone Optics: Obama’s Pettus Bridge Vs. Bush’s Mission Accomplished
We are looking at a strategic decision to visually frame the president's 50th anniversary Selma speech as a mile marker on a long road toward racial justice.
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A Different View of the Edmund Pettus Bridge — Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein
The way this photo is situated has a lot to say about how much race continues to represent one of America's greatest obstacles.
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A First Place Photo in Light of the Damning Justice Report on Ferguson
If Philip Montgomery's First Place "Picture of the Year, International" Feature photo was good before, it's even better today in light of the newly released DOJ report.
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Award Season and Western Cultural Exports
If the 2015 Oscars expose a diversity problem with western cultural exporting, then the selection by POY doubles down on the indictment.
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Seven Years into a Presidency, What Lurks Beneath the Laugh Track
What's brilliant is the way the photo, on the surface a textbook example of political celebrity, also taps into America's racial polarization.
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POYi Winning Photos: Is the Freeway the New Protest Battle Ground?
Stopping these throughways provide a way for the movement to demonstrate that business-as-usual has got to stop, and that citizens -- especially those that simply watch on TV -- need feel it, too.
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