Happy New Year POU! It's a new decade. Today's featured African-American Photographer: Moneta Sleet Jr. From the time he was sent to Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 to cover an unlikely boycott organized by a young minister named Martin Luther King Jr. until long after he captured what became the signature moment of Dr. King's funeral in Atlanta in 1968, Mr. Sleet was a … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Photographers
Moneta Sleet Jr
Tuesday Open Thread: Black Photographers
Moneta Sleet Jr. captured many of the images that defined the struggle for racial equality in the United States and Africa.. He is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the funeral of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Black Photographers
Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Photographers
Happy Hump Day! Today's featured African-American Photographer: Moneta Sleet Jr. From the time he was sent to Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 to cover an unlikely boycott organized by a young minister named Martin Luther King Jr. until long after he captured what became the signature moment of Dr. King's funeral in Atlanta in 1968, Mr. Sleet was a gentle, ubiquitous presence in … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Photographers