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An Intimate Glimpse Into Segregation-Era Life For African Americans – The Gordon Parks Exhibit
Journalism, SOCIAL JUSTICE

An Intimate Glimpse Into Segregation-Era Life For African Americans – The Gordon Parks Exhibit

In the spring of 1950, Gordon Parks, the first African-American photographer for Life Magazine, returned to his hometown of Fort Scott, Kansas. On assignment for the magazine, Parks photographed his middle school classmates, who were dispersed among Fort Scott and other Midwestern cities and towns. The resulting images – while quite personal to Parks – offer a glimpse into a community and a set of experiences shared by many African Americans of his generation. Depicting the realities of discrimination without the veil of nostalgia, it’s a body of work that captures the resiliency of a community at a significant point in American history – just prior to the Civil Rights Movement. But for reasons unknown, Life never published the series. Now, the powerful exhibit of over 40 segregation-er...
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Gordon Last Person Known To Be With Bobbi Kristina

     mysterious videotape and soiled clothing have surfaced in the $40 million lawsuit over the tragic death of Whitney Houston’s daughter,Bobbi Kristina Brown – and the bombshell new evidence could blow open the criminal homicide investigation, The National ENQUIRER has learned. The sensational disclosures come directly from Bobbi Kristina’s hot-tempered boyfriend, Nick Gordon, who made the shocking revelation in a legal response to the wrongful death suit filed against him by her estate. A top expert told The ENQUIRER that Gordon’s admissions could put him in deep trouble as the criminal investigation heats up! In new filings on Sept. 8 in Superior Court of Fulton County (Ga.), Bobbi Kristina’s self-styled “husband” vehemently denied killing her, saying it’s “fri...