Khalil Muhammad Interview: Exploring Gordon Parks' Impactful Photography

Описание: Historian Khalil Muhammad explores how Gordon Parks used his photography, starting in the 1940’s and going through the 1970’s to tell new stories about who Black people were, what they were capable of and how that challenged the falsities of White supremacists.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the Ford Foundation Professor of history, race, and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He directs the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project and is the former director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world’s leading library and archive of global Black history. Khalil’s scholarship examines the broad intersections of racism, economic inequality, criminal justice, and democracy in U.S. history.

From the HBO / Kunhardt Film Foundation (KFF) Documentary "A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks" that follows Parks' career, from staff photographer for LIFE magazine through his artistic development and evolution as a novelist and filmmaker.

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Khalid Muhammad, Historian and Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
Interviewed By: John Maggio
Interview Date: October 8, 2020

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