The Superhero Photographs of the Black Lives Matter Movement – The New York Times

The Superhero Photographs of the Black Lives Matter Movement

Against the grim footage of unjust deaths, iconic images of protesters project power and will.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/magazine/the-superhero-photographs-of-the-black-lives-matter-movement.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

As soon as the photograph of Ieshia Evans began to circulate online, people said she looked like a superhero. There she stands, slim and straight, on a street in Baton Rouge. Her dress, abstractly patterned in black and white, swirls around her. She seems almost to be levitating