Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, poses this question in an essay that opens an important new book of crime photos by the late Gordon Parks. “From the beginning, the ...

In the fight for Black liberation, African-American photographer, filmmaker, author and composer Gordon Parks (1912-2006) transformed storytelling into activism. “Finally, after a long search to find ...

Photographer Gordon Parks created an arresting visual essay about the experience of segregation in 1950, on the eve of the Civil Rights movement. It’s now on view in an exhibition at the Museum of ...

Nearly 20 years after his death, the photographer, filmmaker and author will be recognized thanks to a recent legislative ...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A newly-released book highlights the groundbreaking life of Kansas-born photojournalist and filmmaker, Gordon Parks. "Grit and Grace: Gordon Parks," by Overland Park resident Ann ...

The photographer’s A Man Becomes Invisible and Segregation Story series are on view at the Weinstein Gallery in Minnesota. “What makes them so wonderful and revolutionary is they’re just so ...

A posthumous anthology of photo essays by the curator and art historian reveals the “troubling reality” of prejudice and the power of images to “undermine the very concept of difference.” By Holly ...

In a massive windfall that was part gift and part purchase, Howard University has secured over 250 photographs from Gordon Parks’ 50-year career, including early photos from the 1940s. The Root ...

Before Cassius Clay took the name Muhammad Ali, he was a 22-year-old who’d been rechristened “the champ,” the greatest boxer in the world. Long-time Life magazine photojournalist and renaissance man ...

“As our year became more and more problematic with all these horrific deaths of black people I wanted to contextualize [the exhibition],” says James Barron, the gallerist who is putting on the show.

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz received their flowers. Alicia Keys and her husband, Swizz Beatz, received their flowers on Tuesday, May 21, at the Gordon Parks Foundation Awards. The celebrity couple was ...