Unc @wkamaubell, @CNNOriginals and @ZPZProduction take us to South Carolina to see what decades of inequality can do to communities and show us some folks doing the hard work to protect those who need it.
We have 54 million food insecure households in America. #UnitedShades
"When I hear the word food desert, I want to correct people and tell them that it is a food apartheid. Deserts are natural occurrences. Apartheid is intentional." -- @FreshFutureFarm#UnitedShades
“We have sky rocketing rents but wages aren’t rising with them. If your rent is more than 30 percent of your income then you are rent burdened." — @ChasProBono
“We have been convinced that the rising stock market. More than 80 percent of all us stocks are owned by 10 percent of us households.” #UnitedShades
“91 of the top 500 companies in America paid $0 in income taxes last year, that’s not right. “We can’t rebuild the high way system or house the homeless if large corporations won’t pay anything.” #unitedshades
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I’m tired of badly edited images of black and brown people. Poorly exposed frames with recycled presets slapped on has got to stop. It doesn’t help tell the stories of black and brown folks. #equitythroughediting#madewithlightroom
what sort of action is needed?
I could go on forever. But what I want to focus on how bad editing has robbed so many black and brown subjects of being truly seen.
my solution, a new initiative called greater equity through editing. sponsored by @Lightroom, taught by me (for now).