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In a year with so many consequential moments, some will necessarily be lost from memory. For our final installment of ‘best of’ photos, we’re highlighting a few shots that didn’t quite fit anywhere else.
Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News
Lynn Murphy in front of the Richmond Police Department, where she documented police responses to the protests this summer. Murphy, Goad Gatsby, and other citizen journalists had their cellphones seized by Richmond Police when they were arrested during summer protests.
Goad Gatsby shooting hoops in Marcus-David Peters Circle. (Photo: Alex Scribner/VPM News)
Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News
Theresa Steele told Megan Pauly about the racism she experienced from medical professionals when Pauly reported on legislation to address racial disparities in maternal health.
A Reuters photographer saw the young Black dancers standing proudly
en pointe in front of the graffiti-laced statue; they were wearing black tutus and raising their fists in a symbol of strength. She asked if she could take their picture, and when Reuters posted the photo to social media, it went viral. Fast.
The image almost instantly became an iconic photo of the Black Lives Matter movement, with celebrities retweeting it and national publications such as Vanity Fair and Vogue running the photo with stories on the Confederate statues and Black Lives Matter.
Kennedy and Ava suddenly found themselves in a position to be a voice for change. And they decided to use it.