DOJ sets up climate for more abuse in prisons: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Lorton afternoon #artsinprison

On this day in 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama, arrested seamstress and activist Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated city bus.

Lorton photographers documented community happenings around the prison, including the PAL program, people, animals, love.

“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/27/i_m_not_going_to_give

Photography workshops at Lorton Prison radically changed who controlled the narrative of incarceration.

Photographer and social justice advocate Bernie Boston was a friend to the program and visited multiple times. Check out an exhibition of his work at McLean Project of the Arts.

For your Monday:

Thelma Golden opened the floodgates for a generation of Black artists to just be themselves. Now, ahead of the Studio Museum’s reopening, the director speaks about shouldering the weight artreview.com/the-intervie...

They were very poor http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78552

New PROCSSS newsletter: “I was at Work (While a lot of people were in art school)”. I share memories and early work from my days working at Kinkos back in 2002. I had no safety net so I had to figure a way out to get to my dream of being a creative professional. www.nonstndrd.com/i-was-at-work/

Thrilled to be curating a Social Justice Arts Exhibition with Vikki Tobak and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. The exhibit will feature archival photos by @ruckmanphoto.bsky.social and @ild1985.bsky.social

Music that speaks truth. youtube.com/watch?v=mmo3...

🎃 On this day of reflection and tradition, we’re reminded that the real challenges our communities face aren’t seasonal—they’re systemic. Together, we can end the harms of mass incarceration and build a future grounded in justice. 👉 jlusa.org/donate #Halloween #JLUSAstrong #JusticeForAll

In the U.S., we use prisoners as a source of income for the powerful, because our prison system originated with our chattel slavery system. This rate increase approval is the intentional result of that system, fought for by sheriffs and wardens and state legislators and huge corporations.

Chuck Kennedy will be giving an Artist talk at the Jackson Art Center on November 16 at 3pm. Chuck co-taught photography at Lorton Prison during the early days of his career! @chuckkennedydc.bsky.social @jacksonartcenter.bsky.social

"We've always used art and culture as a way to imagine something different." Patrisse Cullors reminds us, collective, joyful expression is pivotal to combatting fear-based narratives that divide us all. Hear more insights from Patrisse on our full #CWA25 kickstarter video. bit.ly/CWA25Video

In 2024, four million Americans were banned from voting due to a felony conviction. We're committed to expanding voting rights in every state & working with state partners to provide specific data on state felony disenfranchisement. bit.ly/3kGns8t

This is us — the Holsinger Studio Portrait Project. Check out the cool video. And come to our launch party tomorrow. 👇🏽

Catalog launch! Great photography! Free books! Tomorrow! Watch all about it! www.29news.com/2025/10/24/v...

Part of a thread on who's funding Trump's vandalism of the White House. Worth keeping in mind when it comes to spending your money. But, damn, shitty corporations are virtually impossible to avoid.

Can we get the jewel thieves to do a little work on the Files?

More people have died this year in immigration detention than any other year in decades. The best way to prevent abuse and deaths in ICE custody is for Congress to stop funding the ICE detention machine.

Howard University’s Temples of Hope, Rituals of Survival: Gordon Parks and Black Religious Life is the first exhibit devoted to Gordon Parks’ images of Black American religious and spiritual life. Contributor Coley Gray talks with curator Dr. Melanee C. Harvey:

Thinking today about the legendary photographer Anthony Barboza and his striking work. photographyfieldnotes.blogspot.com/2025/01/anth...

What we do: resist, organize + vote #nokings #freedc

An essential read. Can we make this go viral?

I’ve been reposting all of the crowd videos of today’s NO KINGS rallies because at some point they’ll try to say it didn’t happen.

Love America ❌👑 #freedc

Harlem Street Scene https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/116613

“How Living Are His Portraits of the Dead.” Toni Morrison on the Photography of James Van Der Zee lithub.com/how-living-a...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS in Washington, D.C.” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Who gets to tell the story? #massincarceration

'Black Photojournalism' Brings Joy Alive — in Black and White www.ebony.com/black-photoj...

Anthony Barboza’s retrospective at the New Bedford Art Museum looks at Black culture, history and society through the lens of a master photographer newbedfordlight.org/anthony-barb...

What we do #document+advocate

Jamel Shabazz lovingly documents his sacred space and honors those who’ve stepped in front of his lens. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

ASSOCIATED PRESS: Returning to ruins: Photos of Palestinian families going home apnews.com/photo-galler... @apnews.com ‪#photojournalism #journalism #photography‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

No Kings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. www.nokings.org

What we do: document + advocate 📷

Grateful to have seen “Photography and the Black Arts Movement” before the National Gallery of Art closure due to government shutdown.

www.fstopmagazine.com/blog/2025/wi...

my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)

#tdih 1964 Free Speech Movement was launched at UC–Berkeley, with roots in Black Freedom Struggle in South. Goal was to fight racism, sexism, poverty, & war. Media, univ. leaders, & politicians used Red Scare to attack 1st Amendment rights. Sound familiar? ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fr...

Here's the Guardian story on the newly re-created Committee for the First Amendment by Jane Fonda, following her father's Henry Fonda's lead from the 1940s. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Incarceration has deadly consequences for everyone – even those who are not behind bars:

Reviewing contact sheets #artsinprison

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. ” Baldwin's finest interview www.themarginalian.org/2017/05/24/j...

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?