Award-winning photographer Devin Allen has devoted the last six years
to documenting the protests of the Black Lives Matter movement, from
its early days in Baltimore, Maryland up to the present-day. The
riveting images in No Justice, No Peace provide a lens on the
resistance that has empowered Black lives generation after
generation. Allen's signature black & white photos bear witness
to the profound history of African Americans and allies in the fight
for social justice and portrays the collective action over decades in
stunning, timeless portraits.
Allen's remarkable
photos of today's Black Lives Matter protests, which have been
featured on the New York Times, Washington Post, and twice on the
cover of Time Magazine, were inspired by Gordon Parks of the Civil
Rights Movement--and create a vision of the past and future of Black
activism and leadership in America. With contributions from 15
bestselling and influential writers and activists of today such as
Clint Smith, DeRay McKesson, D. Watkins, Jacqueline Woodson, Emmanuel
Acho, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and more alongside the words of past
writers and activists such as Martin Luther King Jr, Frederick
Douglass, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, John Lewis, No Justice No Peace is
a reminder of the moral responsibility of Americans to challenge
unjust laws and take direct action.
In words and
pictures, No Justice, No Peace honors the connection between
activism today and that of the past. If indeed hindsight is 20/20,
this artistic look back is a lens on history that enlarges our
understanding of the lasting predicament of racism in the United
States of America. At once deeply intimate and profoundly uplifting,
No Justice, No Peace is a visual tribute to Black resistance,
and a stern missive on the tough, but necessary, road that lies
ahead.
