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A man pushes a stroller past Rael San Fratello’s artwork “Reuinte” at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Manhattan, N.Y. on June 11, 2019. The artwork is part of a larger project aimed at encouraging dialogue and civic action to address the seperation of children from their families at the U.S. Mexico border under the Trump administration.
A voter fills out a ballot for the 2020 General Election at the Central Family Life Center in Staten Island’s Stapleton Heights neighborhood on November 3, 2020.
A United States history textbook is thrown into a burning trash can during an anti-July Fourth protest and rally in New York City’s Washington Square Park on July 4, 2020.
Artist Ty Defoe performs a hoop dance at the Confronting July Fourth celebration in Prospect Park, Brooklyn on July 4, 2020.
Girls performing double-dutch routines at the Do the Right Thing 30th Anniversary Block Party in Bedstuy, Brooklyn on June 30, 2019.
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Gwen Carr, activist and mother of Eric Garner attends a rally and vigil for Black women at The Brooklyn Museum on July 19, 2020
A member of the December 12th Movement blocks traffic at the intersection of Nostrand and Fulton Avenues in Bedstuy, Brooklyn on November 2, 2020 during the annual Unity March. The march commemorates Black Solidarity Day, the annual pre-election day memorial founded by Dr. Carlos Russell in 1969.
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Sharon Risher holds a portrait of her late mother Ethel Lance at her home in Charlotte, NC on August 5, 2025. Lance was one of nine victims of the deadly Emanuel A.M.E. church shooting in 2015.