"The program, known as the People’s Pan-African Wellness Front (PPFW)...provided services free of charge to community members — all with the promise of more to come."
- Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. for @washingtoninformer.com
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“You’ll see a lot of images of community, a lot of tenderness, empathy, things that are often not shown when you talk about the culture within the prison system"
Inside Out: Dignity and the Art of Seeing gives an in-depth look at the lives of incarcerated men. The exhibit, closing tonight with a 6 p.m. reception, contains photographs, videos, and more from the Arts in Prison program done at the shuttered Lorton Reformatory.
A black-and-white film photo. A man stands leaning against his food stand on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas. Wednesday, January 21, 2026.
Street Vendor • Austin, Texas, USA
Rolleiflex 3.5 MX-EVS • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2026
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I talked with @lewispants.bsky.social about the art and science of transformation, how people *really* let go of harmful beliefs, and how we can cultivate the conditions that make unlearning possible.
Morning pep talk
REUTERS: The week in pictures www.reuters.com/pictures/wee... @pictures.reuters.com #photojournalism #journalism #photography
A Beech tree I have enjoyed visiting regularly over the years, Exmoor.
#photography
#monochrome
#blackandwhite
#bnw
Life is short, friends. Spend as much of it as you can loving people.
VOGUE: Photojournalist Annice Lyn on wielding empathy and creating visibility for women in a male-dominated industry vogue.sg/career-files... @vogue.globo.com.web.brid.gy #photojournalism #journalism #photography
“Photography through the lens of SNCC activists and local people made the personal political, as communities actively sought to redefine their conditions and fight for economic, psychological, and political liberation. It combated racist media coverage … and worked to illustrate the facts”
“I think technology & social media create new challenges for truth telling... But I still think a camera can be a powerful weapon – in the hands of a gifted storyteller, which is what I saw Gordon Parks as. He was an artist beyond his skill at taking a photograph"
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“In a moment when content is being removed from cultural institutions across the United States, when there is resistance, even contempt, for anyone who tries to talk honestly about this history, this Gordon Parks exhibit is both timely and urgent. #BlackskyNews
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#Photography by Gordon Parks (1912–2006) #art
WALLPAPER: Gordon Parks’ photographs of Black Americans in the 1950s are essential viewing in London www.wallpaper.com/art/photogra... @wallpapermag.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography
‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it
Annotated copy of the first page of “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston
Tomorrow, my students and I begin Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece. This is my favorite novel to read and teach and this is the most perfect first page in all of literature.
I’m nervous and excited to experience Janie’s world with this group. The conversation will be RICH. #TeachingTEWWG
Take Janney Elementary in Tenleytown. On January 29, the Thursday after the storm, 90% of the school's 720 kids attended. But over at Beers Elementary in Ward 7, attendance was 16% of the school's 364 students.
Yesterday, at DC Council’s oversight hearing, our program director, Talia, testified and shared a story from one of our members from the youth collective of Critical Exposure.
We’re calling for reinvestment and accountability. Our youth are constantly wrestling against a system they can’t trust.
Who gets to tell the story?
At Worldview Wednesdays, our instructors, Orlando and Delonte, help young people explore photography as a tool for storytelling, critical thinking, and change.
From camera care to photojournalism ethics, students are learning that their perspectives matter.
11 things we’re asking DC Council to do during today’s MPD Performance Oversight Hearing
1. Prohibit facecoverings for federal officers operating in DC. 2. Require federal agents operating in DC to follow the same requirements for public identification as MPD, including name, badge number, and agency information. 3. Require MPD arrest reports to list all officers from all agencies present during the arrest along with officer names, badge numbers, and descriptions of their use of force. 4. Prohibit MPD from coordinating with federal agents in sensitive locations like churches and schools.
5. Repeal local qualified immunity protections for federal officers making arrests under DC law, as well as any law enforcement officer who enters a DC school, community center, or house of worship. 6. Require MPD to file a report on any interactions with a minor, including conversations on the street. 7. Conduct an independent investigation of all officer-involved shootings in 2025 and 2026 and release the names and body camera footage of all officers involved.
8. Restrict vehicular pursuits for all federal agencies. 9. Close the loophole in the Sanctuary Values Act so it applies to all DC agencies that contact residents outside of holding them in custody, including MPD. 10. Hold a hearing on the Safe Community Places and Policing Amendment Act of 2025. 11. Prohibit MPD from contacting federal agents over personal possession of cannabis.
Over the last year, MPD has started cooperating more than ever before with federal agents. It has had deadly consequences, and it's beyond time for DC Council to address it.
Here are the 11 things we're asking for during DC Council's annual Performance Oversight Hearing on MPD.
Next week, join the Law Center's Youth Team for a webinar about the Youth Homelessness Index, a know-your-rights and policy advocacy tool that tracks over 100 youth-identified policy priorities that move us closer to our goal of housing justice!
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This #BlackHistoryMonth, we honor the Black young people who shaped American history, including members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), who stepped into civil rights leadership and pushed our nation toward justice and transformative change. Thank you!
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The youth are not just our future, they're our present!
That's why spaces like this are such a gift 🎁
Thank you to the City Leaders who showed up to listen. This is what accountability looks like.
To the young people who spoke, facilitated, and led...this is your power in action!
This isn’t the end of the conversation! Message us or comment below to get info on our next Youth Town Hall.
The room wasn’t just full...it was heard 💜
Our 2nd Youth Town Hall of 2026 brought together powerful DC youth to speak truth, share lived experiences, & challenge the systems shaping their futures.
From education to safety to opportunity, our youth showed up with clarity, courage, and solutions.
Allow us to reintroduce ourselves. We’re Critical Exposure. Since 2004, over 3,800 DC youth have organized, told their stories, & used photography to transform their schools & communities with us.
Give us a follow & check our website www.criticalexposure.org
Let’s build together 🧡📸
Rev. Jesse Jackson stood with residents of the District demanding what should have always been ours: the right to govern ourselves.
He showed up for D.C. because he believed the people of the nation’s capital deserved the same political power as every other American.
Rest in power.✊🏾
Man, expectations are so low and I understand. People have been so beaten down politically that they think that nothing will be changed. But WE are the ones who have to push them to enact the policies they commit to. Nothing will 'just happen.'
