- Photograph by
- Oliver, Tommy, American, born 1984
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Floyd, George Perry Jr., American, 1973 - 2020
- Lacey, Jackie, American, born 1957
- Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles, American, founded 2013
- Date
- June 3, 2020
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- H x W: 4480 pixels × 6720 pixels
- File size: 172.3 MB
- Caption
- Photographer Tommy Oliver is an award-winning producer and cinematographer in television and film. Best known for his 2020 documentary 40 Years a Prisoner on HBO, his docuseries Black Love (2017–2020) on OWN, and his feature film The Perfect Guy (2015), Oliver challenges audiences to question their assumptions about race, gender, and family. The film Kinyarwanda (2011), which Oliver co-produced, weaves together narratives of resilience during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It won the Sundance Film Festival’s award for World Cinema Drama and was recognized as one of the top 10 films of 2011. This photograph is part of a broader portfolio of images taken during Black Lives Matter rallies in Los Angeles between May 31 and June 14, 2020.
- Description
- A digital, black-and-white image of a protest sign being held up by a pair of hands at a Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles protest against District Attorney Jackie Lacey in Downtown Los Angeles, California. The image was taken by Tommy Oliver during the protests that followed the death of George Floyd. The sign is constructed of plain, corrugated cardboard with rough, irregular edges. Black, handwritten, marker text on the front of the sign reads [BLACK LIVES / MATTER / BLACK LGBTQ / LIVES MATTER], with three hand drawn hearts at the bottom. The protester is holding the sign up in the air with both hands. There is also the top of a cell phone visible in the proper right hand of the protester, behind the sign. In the background is a blurred leafy tree and the tops of several other blurred protest signs.
- Place captured
- Downtown LA, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Movement
- Black Lives Matter
- Type
- digital images
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- Gender
- Identity
- Justice
- LGBTQ
- Photography
- Police brutality
- Race relations
- Resistance
- Sexuality
- U.S. History, 2001-
- Urban life
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Tommy and Codie Oliver
- Object number
- 2021.31.13
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Tommy Oliver
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




