WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 30: A photo of Breonna Taylor is seen among other photos of women who have lost their lives as a result of violence during the 2nd Annual Defend Black Women March in Black Lives Matter Plaza on July 30, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Frontline Action Hub)
HOPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA FEBRUARY 15: Afrikaners dance to traditional music on February 15, 2025 in Hopetown, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. The Hopetown farm show is a yearly event where thousands of people attend two days of horse races, entertainment, farm equipment displays, a strongman contest and rides for children. The show is the highlight of the year in this small farming town, made famous in 1867 when a boy found the first diamond in the area. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JULY 05: Bryan Birdman Williams performs during 2024 ESSENCE Festival of Culture presented by Coca-Cola at Caesars Superdome on July 05, 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Erika Goldring/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 24: (L-R) A flight suit Trayvon Martin wore when he attended Experience Aviation in his early teens, the costume worn by actor Nichelle Nichols in her groundbreaking role as Lt. Nyota Uhura in the science fiction television series Star Trek, and former NASA Administrator Charles Bolden’s suit from his first space flight are all on display at the temporary exhibit Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on March 24, 2023 in Washington, DC. The exhibit assembles more than 100 objects from music, film, television, comic books, fashion, theater, literature and more that covers more than a century of Afrofuturism. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – MAY 15: Sean “Diddy” Combs attends the 2022 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 15, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Mindy Small/FilmMagic)
Black and white photograph of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, a Puerto Rican historian, writer, and activist in the United States who researched and raised awareness of the contributions that Afro-Latin Americans and Afro-Americans have made to society, April, 1922. From the New York Public Library. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).
American Baptist minister and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 – 1968) holds a press conference at the Savoy Hotel in London, UK, September 1964. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
MIRAMAR, FL – APRIL 30: The Everglades High School students during Rhythms of Africa Music Around the World at Miramar Regional Park Amphitheater on April 30, 2022 in Miramar, Florida. (Photo by Johnny Louis/Getty Images)
