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date: label: Date
content: June 6, 2020
name: label: Photograph by
content: Tommy Oliver, American, born 1984
label: Subject of
content: Nev Schulman, American, born 1984
label: Subject of
content: Kendrick Sampson, American, born 1988
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Man or Men
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
label: Subject of
content: George Perry Floyd Jr., American, 1973 - 2020
label: Subject of
content: BLD PWR, American, founded 2018
notes: label: Caption
content: Photographer Tommy Oliver is an award-winning producer and cinematographer in television and film. Best known for his 2020 documentary 40 Years a Prisoner on HBO, his docuseries Black Love (2017–2020) on OWN, and his feature film The Perfect Guy (2015), Oliver challenges audiences to question their assumptions about race, gender, and family. The film Kinyarwanda (2011), which Oliver co-produced, weaves together narratives of resilience during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It won the Sundance Film Festival’s award for World Cinema Drama and was recognized as one of the top 10 films of 2011. This photograph is part of a broader portfolio of images taken during Black Lives Matter rallies in Los Angeles between May 31 and June 14, 2020.
label: Description
content: A digital, black-and-white image of Nev Schulman and Kendrick Sampson with a crowd of protesters in a Black Lives Matter protest in Beverly Hills, California. The image was taken by Tommy Oliver during the protests that followed the death of George Floyd. Schulman and Sampson are facing the viewer and are marching within a group of tightly packed protesters on a city street. Schulman is shown from the chest up in the front left foreground. He is wearing a black, short sleeve T-shirt with partially cropped white text across the chest that reads [BLACK / LIVES] and dark heart-shaped sunglasses. Behind Schulman’s proper left shoulder is Sampson. Sampson is shown from the chest up, speaking into a handheld microphone attached to a bullhorn. He is holding the bullhorn upright on his proper left shoulder while speaking into the microphone in his proper right hand. He is wearing a black T-shirt with white text on the chest that reads [BLD / [PW?]R]. He is also wearing a black skull cap and a black face mask with the white piping that has been pulled down and is resting on his collarbone. Many of the protesters surrounding them are wearing face masks or other types of protective face coverings. Held above Schulman’s and Sampson’s heads are two large protest signs. The partially obscured sign on the left has hand painted text reads [WE WON’T / BE SILENT / NO JUSTICE / NO P[EACE?]]. The cardboard sign on the right with black, handwritten text reads [BLACK / LIVES / MATTER]. A black protest sign with white hand painted text on the far right reads [I WILL / NEVER / UNDERSTAND / BUT I / [S?]TAND]. In the background are several tall, multi-storied buildings, streetlights and signs, palm trees, and leafy trees. Two slightly blurred street signs above the crowd reads [Canon Dr].
place: label: Place captured
content: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
title: label: Title
content: Photograph of Nev Schulman and Kendrick Sampson with protesters in Beverly Hills
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Actors
label: Topic
content: Justice
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Police brutality
label: Topic
content: Race relations
label: Topic
content: Resistance
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 2001-
label: Topic
content: Urban life
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
label: Movement
content: Black Lives Matter
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Tommy and Codie Oliver
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.31.49
objectType: label: Type
content: digital images
label: Type
content: digital media - born digital
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Tommy Oliver
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: digital
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 2949 pixels × 6720 pixels
label: Dimensions
content: File size: 113.42 MB