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

State lawmakers have secured $250,000 to commemorate photographer, filmmaker, author and activist Gordon Parks in St. Paul.

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 ...

The re-release and exhibition of Gordon Parks’ “Born Black” bring new relevance to the famed photographer’s perspective on Black American life. The late Gordon Parks — director, composer, memoirist, ...

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 ...

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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 ...