memento memori

Dorothy Counts entering Harding High School in Charlotte, NC. Circa 1957. First Black to attend the school.

A photo of Charles N. Hunter, the founder of the first North Carolina Colored State Fair.

Three young children working as Oyster Shuckers, during the Great Depression (1930s)

A photograph of Clara Faubert, a young woman from Haiti, before leaving for France. She was married to Felix Martin (Colored American Magazine. January-February 1902, Volume 4 Issue 3. February)

The truth is that work, or rather, working, has never and will never make anyone free because the false freedom it gives is only short-lived due to what work itself provides, literally and metaphorically

Two Senegalese young women stop for a second during a hairdressing session.

A photograph of a Mangbetu baby, a group of native tribes from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Mangbetu people elongated their skull as a symbol of majesty and status. This elongation received the name of Lipombo' and began right after birth.

An eagle view of Hiroshima, before the bombing (above) and after the bombing (below).

Newspapers. The Courier-Journal. Cassius Clay, better known as Muhammad Ali, shows two fellow boxers some of his techniques. (Louisville, Kentucky. January 30, 1959) The text below the photograph reads: "Know-how...Cassius Clay (right) who won the Golden Gloves Award in light-heavyweight title last year and is to defend it starting Monday night at the Armory, shows Barney Oldfield how to make a fist. Looking on is Mike Woosley, who, as Oldfield will be making his first start in the amateur classic."

A group of firefighters (Haiti, 1910s)

Newspapers. Liverpool Echo. "John Lennon shot dead. Crazed gunman charged" John Lennon, founder of The Beatles (October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980)

"Taking Haiti Seriously" by Peter Felten, explores the writings of Mary A. Renda "Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of US Imperialism, 1915-1940" (Reviews in american History 30, 2002, 471-476. John Hopkins University Press)

One of the many wounded survivors of the second atomic bomb dropped by the USA in Japan, a woman who has scars across her face and neck. (Nagasaki, 1961)

Three black women walking together come across a photographer traveling the USA (Marshall, Texas, 1899. Author: Gabriele Münter)

Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, June 14 1968.