Selma, 1965
Depicts the marchers for voting rights, some of whom wore white leis from sympathetic supporters in Hawaii.
Omar Victor Diop is an fine arts and fashion photographer from Dakar, Senegal who has a recent series of portraits called Liberty. He explores the global black liberation struggle in a personal way, putting himself in each male role and his friend Khadija Boye posing in the female roles.
As he portrayed moments from the struggles in Africa and throughout the African diaspora Diop said he was “trying to have a more universal reading of the history of black protest, in order to build bridges for a better understanding of the question.” Diop seeks to make the lives of the people in those historical and cultural moments flow into the present, as they have altered the destiny of the generations that followed.
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Trayvon Martin, 2012
Trayvon Martin’s murder while coming home from the store with soda and candy sparked the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
West African Railway Strike