'I want to make sure the stories of my fellow black brothers and sisters are accurately represented.'
while in the custody of Minneapolis police, pictures capturing heated moments during demonstrations have flooded our televisions and social media feeds. With so many of these visuals competing for screentime, it can often be overwhelming to decipher truth from fiction, propaganda from sincerity, and to grasp the context behind a single captured frame.
This is why BuzzFeed News has brought together a collection of 17 black photojournalists who are on the front lines of these protests, providing raw and unfiltered perspectives of these events as they unfold in real time., who has been documenting the community he grew up in and offering personal insight into the reasons behind upheaval."Bed-Stuy has roots in promoting black unity and denouncing a lot of the systemic racism that occurs in NYC," Geathers told BuzzFeed News.
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