Stephen Shames is one of the most significant documentary photographers of the American civil rights era. Beginning in the late 1960s, while a student at UC Berkeley, Shames gained rare and intimate access to the Black Panther Party. He photographed its leaders, its community programs, and the broader activist movements that defined the era. His […]
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How to Handle Health: Strategies and Recent Developments
Traditionally, medical institutions and systems are portrayed as places of cures and remedies, but what if they are actually major sources of health issues, woven into a broader system of inequitable access to healthcare and distribution of basic human needs? Well aware of this contradiction, the Black Panther Party (BPP), led by Huey P. Newton, […]
Are Protests Powerful? (It Depends)
Black Lives Matters protesters in Missouri stand together along a highway, with locked arms, chanting and holding signs that read “black lives matter” and “say their names.” But they are surrounded. From above, the buzzing of helicopters compete with the cries of the crowd. On the ground, S.W.A.T. officers appear and the police threaten arrest […]