#Chester Higgins Jr.
Out the back window, Ghana, 1975 - by Chester Higgins Jr. (1946), American
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Nikki Giovanni, Re:Creation, Broadside Press, Detroit, MI, 1970 [Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY]. Photocover by Chester Higgins, Jr.; Designed by Ray Prather, Jr.
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Maya Angelou
Photography by Chester Higgins, Jr
Gelatin Silver Print, 1969, printed 2020
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Rainy Times Square, Manhattan, 1969. Chester Higgins, Jr. Gelatin silver print.
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ACT UP Paris protesters on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, France, December 1, 1994. AP Photo/Laurent Rebours
ACT UP protester Kendall Morrison in New York City in 1989. Chester Higgins Jr.
ACT UP’s first demonstration, known as the Wall Street march, March 24, 1987 - protesters being arrested at nearby Trinity Church - John Sotomayor
1997 ACT UP poster condemning drug companies, congress and Clinton.
1980s-90s ACT UP protests.
If protests aren't at least disruptive, they are meaningless.
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Chester Archer, Jr. Higgins
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When you plant lettuce, you don’t blame the lettuce if it does not grow well. You look into the reasons why it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of others, they will grow well, just like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade by means of reason or argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument—just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and any difficult situation will improve.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Photo: Chester Higgins Jr
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Writer and music critic Amiri Baraka, who was born on this date in 1934, with poet, screenwriter and activist Maya Angelou in 1991 in Harlem during an event at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Chester Higgins, Jr./The New York Times
#amiribaraka #mayaangelou #schomburgcenter #langstonhughes #harlem #photography #photojournalism #jazzstage
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Chester Higgins Jr., Amiri Baraka and Maya Angelou at the Schomburg Center, 1991
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The morning commute on the No. 7 line in Queens
Chester Higgins Jr. [NYT], 1997 NYT
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🤎 Aging natural beauty. Photo by Chester Higgins Jr
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Morning chore, Ethiopia, 1989 - Chester Higgins Jr. (1946), American
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Nikki Giovanni, For Gwendolyn Brooks [September 23, 1969], in Re:Creation, Broadside Press, Detroit, MI, 1970, p. 12
No Complaints
(For Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2001)
maybe there is something about the seventh of June: Gwen,
Prince and me . . . or maybe people just have to be born at some
time . . . and there are only three hundred sixty-five days or three
sixty-six every four years or so . . .
– Nikki Giovanni, from ‘Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea’ (2002)
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Maya Angelou dancing with the poet Amiri Baraka over the ashes of the poet Langston Hughes at the Schomburg Library, New York. February 1991.
Credit...Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
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Street Corner, Dakar, Senegal, 1988. Chester Higgins, Jr.. Gelatin silver print.
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Tony Bennett followed in the musical path of the greatest American pop singers of the 20th century, and carried the torch for them into the 21st century / Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
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