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Dec 7, 2020 · Alan Taylor. December 7, 2020. 25 Photos. In Focus. As we approach the end of a year unlike any other in recent memory, here is a look back at some of the major news events and moments of 2020 ...
- Cassidy Hutchinson's Shocking Testimony. Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson made headlines in June after her shocking testimony before the House committee investigating the Jan.
- The Fall of Roe v. Wade. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it had overturned the landmark 1973 case, Roe v. Wade, which granted women the right to an abortion in every state, The official decision came a month after a 98-page opinion obtained by Politico — allegedly authored by Justice Samuel Alito and leaked to the press in a major breach of confidentiality — stated that "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start," and that "we [the Supreme Court majority] hold that Roe and Casey [another ruling on the right to abortion from 1992 which upheld the previous court decision] must be overruled."
- Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes SCOTUS History. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman on the nation's highest court following her formal swearing-in in October.
- Russia Invades Ukraine. Russia launched its military attack on Ukraine on the morning of Feb. 24. Black smoke from explosions could be seen shooting up in the sky as photographers captured the devastation on the ground.
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- Pussy Riot Play Red Square, 2012
- Police Dogs Attack Civil Rights Demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963
- The Lady in Red at Gezi Park, 2013
- Barbara Kruger’s Vision Goes Global, 2020
- Rosa Parks Takes Her Seat on The Bus, 1956
- Tiananmen Square, 1989: A Young Boy …
- … and Tank Man
- The Self-Immolation of Thich Quang Duc, 1963
- Resistance at The Gaza Border, 2018
- Emma Sulkowicz Carries A Mattress, 2014
“Pussy Riot was formed in October 2011, because we didn’t want Putin to stay in power for ever, and we felt that if we didn’t get rid of him, he would bring a great deal of pain to our country,” says Nadya Tolokonnikova, a founding member of the Russian protest group-cum-punk band. On 20 January 2012, eight members of Pussy Riot climbed on to the p...
In early 1963, Martin Luther King Jr described Birmingham as “probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States”. He and other civil rights leaders organised a campaign of nonviolent protests, placing students at the centre of the movement. Eugene “Bull” Connor, the city’s commissioner of public safety and a staunch segregationist, ...
Around three million people took part in the wave of protests against the government that swept Turkey in the summer of 2013. It began with a small, peaceful protest on 28 May against the planned demolition and redevelopment of Taksim Gezi Park in Istanbul; police then attempted to disperse protesters using teargas and water cannon. This image of a...
The artwork Untitled (Your Body is a Battleground) was originally produced by Barbara Kruger as a poster urging people to attend the March for Women’s Lives in Washington DC in April 1989. The demonstration was organised in protest against the Republican administration’s attempts to overturn Roe v Wade that year. Formerly an editorial designer at C...
This was taken on 21 December 1956, the day of the desegregation of the public transportation system in Montgomery, Alabama. More than 12 months earlier, Rosa Parks had been arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a white man, sparking the 382-day Montgomery bus boycott – the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the US. The ...
“This was the only moment in my career when I instinctively knew it was going to be just fine – that I had a great shot,” Dario Mitidieri says. It was the Italian-born photojournalist’s final evening in Beijing, where he had flown to document the protests in the square. He had a return ticket to the UK the following morning. When he first arrived i...
This photograph was taken by Stuart Franklin, a British photographer, on 5 June 1989, the day after the Tiananmen Square massacre, in which it’s believed as many as 10,000 pro-democracy protesters in Beijing were killed by troops sent in to quash the demonstrations. A lone protester, dubbed “Tank Man”, stood blocking the path of a column of tanks l...
“No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one,” John F Kennedy said about this image of an elderly Buddhist monk taking his own life, on 11 June 1963, in protest against the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam’s largely Catholic government. American photojournalist Malcolm Browne won a Pulitzer prize f...
A’ed Abu Amro was among tens of thousands of Palestinians taking part in weekly protests at the Gaza border from 2018-19. Among their demands were an end to the blockade and right of return for Palestinian refugees. This image – by Gazan photographer Mustafa Hassona – of the young man with the flag of Palestine and a slingshot was seen around the w...
There aren’t many student art projects that receive as much attention as Emma Sulkowicz’s final-year thesis at Columbia University in New York. For Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight), Sulkowicz vowed to carry a mattress wherever they went on campus until the school agreed to expel a fellow student whom they had accused of rape. The performanc...
Dec 9, 2021 · Del Rio, Texas, Sept. 19. The U.S. flew Haitians camped in the border town back to their homeland and tried to block others from crossing from Mexico. Eric Thayer/Bloomberg. Washington, D.C., Jan ...
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1 day ago · 15 photos that show how divided Congress has become. Talia Lakritz and Madison Hall. Updated. 2024-04-24T14:28:53Z. Marjorie Taylor Greene gives a thumb down as President Joe Biden delivers the ...
Jul 15, 2021 · All Boroughs April 17, 2024. People wait in line to vote at a polling place in Las Vegas on Nov. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) POLITICS. Debate over photo voter ID laws is...
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