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Manhattan, New York. Demonstrators at the Stop Mass Incarceration protest.

Manhattan, New York. Demonstrators at the Stop Mass Incarceration protest.

Manhattan, New York. The Stop Mass Incarceration demonstration. The film director Quentin Tarantino and Revolutionary Communist Party USA member, Carl Dix with some of the victims’ relatives. 

Manhattan, Greenwich Village, New York. The Leonard N. Stern School of Business was founded in 1900 and is one of the oldest and most prestigious business schools worldwide. Although teaching is oriented towards traditional business topics, there are a growing number of courses dealing with sustainable growth and corporate social responsibility.

Manhattan, Greenwich Village, New York. The weekly meeting of the Feminists of Color Collective group, a student association that upholds women’s rights.

Manhattan, New York. NYU Gallatin. Professor Frank Roberts’ seminar on “Black Live Matter: Race, Resistance and Populist protest."

Manhattan, Greenwich Village, New York. The weekly meeting of the Feminists of Color Collective group, a student association upholding women’s rights.

Manhattan, Greenwich Village, New York. New York University. Carly Krakov (1994), studies human rights and environmental science. She is concerned with water rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but also in the US, particularly Detroit. In the background, the Empire State Building, headquarters of Human Right Watch, where Carly would like to work one day.

Manhattan, New York. The City University of New York, CUNY. Mia Lobel’s journalism class produces a radio program with students examining current affairs and social topics. The school is organized like a real media company, it prints its own newspaper, “The Mott Haven Herald”, and produces television material, as well as broadcasting on WHCR and  WHDD - Robinhood Radio. This photo shows the program of the anchorwoman, Gabriela Sierra Alonso.

Morning Side, Manhattan, New York. Columbia University.Todd Giltin (1943) is an American sociologist, professor and writer. Between 1963 and 1964 he was president of the national student organization “Student for a Democratic Society”. He currently teaches sociology and is Director of the School of Journalism at Columbia University.

Manhattan, New York. The City University of New York, CUNY. Following admission to the School of Journalism, students are encouraged to research social topics such as the Black Lives Matter e StopMassIncarceration movements, as well as subjects like gentrification and social health.

Manhattan, Greenwich Village, New York. The Kimmel Center for University Life hosts meetings and conferences on social topics that are also promoted by student groups.

Manhattan, Greenwich Village, New York. Romie Williams was born in 1996 in Riverdale, Georgia. Thanks to a grant from Gates Millennium Scholars, an organization funded by the Bill e Melinda Gates Foundation, she attends the NYU - Gallatin in NYC. Annual tuition there can exceed 29thousand dollars. Gates Millennium Scholars aims to facilitate access to higher education to American students from ethnic groups historically barred from attending.She is taking a course in Social Justice with focus on Urban Education Reform. Here she is shown in the school art gallery in front of a Ron Milewicz painting of Manhattan. Romie presides over several extra-curricular groups that meet on a weekly basis: the Black Student Union (Public Relations Chair), Feminists of Color Collective (Co-Founder), LGBTQ Student Center (Outspoken Peer Educator).

Manhattan, Greenwich Village, New York. Sophie Lasoff is 25 and from Los Angeles. She studies “Intersection of Environmental and Social Justice”. She is an active participant in the “Gallatin Student Life and Debt Series” group which works to create awareness about the economical commitments students have to undertake to assure their education in the US schooling system. She is also active in the “NYU. Divest” group for the promotion of an energy system not based on fossil fuels. She has two jobs in order to be able to finance her studies.

Manhattan, Greenwich Village, New York. A group of students protests outside the Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome Center, where campus  orientation visits for prospective students are organized. The demonstrations call for the abolition of the current admission prerequisite of students having no police or penal record.

Morning Side, Manhattan, New York. Columbia University. Jamal Joseph (1952) is an American writer, producer, poet, activist and educator. At only 16 years of age in 1968, he was the youngest member of the Black Panthers. He was accused of planning and coordinating bomb attacks on two police stations and other locations in NYC, accusations which proved to be unfounded. He served a six-year prison sentence for his role in other crimes he was alleged to have committed, including the murder of Sam Napier (1971) and the Brink’s robbery (1981) during which two police officers were killed. He directed the Columbia University School of Cinema, where he currently teaches. He is also director of the New Heritage Theatre Group of Harlem, and author of  “Panther Baby”, published in 2012 by Algonquin Books.

Brooklyn, New York. Relatives of the victims during the first day of the Stop Mass Incarceration demonstration, held in front of the Barclay Center in Brooklyn.          The Stop Mass Incarceration Network organized #RiseUpOctober demonstrations throughout New York City to demand an end to arbitrary killings and brutality by police officers and the mass incarceration of Americans, particularly those of color. 

Manhattan, New York. The City University of New York, CUNY.Brooke Williams is a journalism student. Her work focuses on criminal justice and cases of unjustified arrests. She is working on a documentary about mothers of victims of judiciary errors. Her reports are set mainly in the Bronx. Her dream is to work for a broadcast company.

Manhattan, Greenwich Village, New York. The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library is the largest library of the New York University in Manhattan. Designed by Philip Johnson e Richard Foster and built in 1972, it is one of the largest university libraries in the US. It was at the center of some controversy due to a number of stress-related student suicides that took place there between 2003 and 2009, which lead to the installation of protective rails to prevent jumping from the top floors of the structure.

Bronx, New York. Tadia Toussaint (1993) attends the first year of journalism at the City University of New York. Once admitted to the School of Journalism, students are encouraged to explore social topics such as the Black Lives Matter e Stop Mass Incarceration movements, as well as subjects like gentrification and social health. Tadia is collecting stories in the Bronx, which until a short time ago was the only area in New York unaffected by this phenomenon. Here she is in Luis D. Rosado’s art gallery.

Harlem, New York. Dr. Cornel West is talking about the upcoming Stop Mass Incarceration demonstration at the First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem. Together with Carl Dix he is inciting the public to join The Stop Mass Incarceration Network, which organized the #RiseUpOctober demonstrations throughout New York City to demand an end to arbitrary killings and brutality by police officers and the mass incarceration of Americans, particularly those of color.

Manhattan, Greenwich Village, New York. Romie Williams ( at the center ) was born in 1996 in Riverdale, Georgia. Thanks to a grant from Gates Millennium Scholars, an organization financed by the Bill e Melinda Gates Foundation, she attends the NYU - Gallatin di NY. She studies Social Justice with special focus on Urban education Reform. Romie is also a member of the Black Student Union, Feminists of Color Collective, LGBTQ Student Center groups. On the right and left respectively, Janve Sobers political science student, and Monét Jeffries, sociology. The photographs behind them is part of the “Finding Dante” project, completed by the artists Rico Washington e Shino Yanagawa. Their work is displayed in the Kimmel Gallery at the NYU and highlights police brutality towards ethnic minorities, questioning how Dante De Blasio, the African-American teen-age son of the NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio, would manage if approached by the police without the protection of his surname.