- Photograph by
- Oliver, Tommy, American, born 1984
- Subject of
- Schulman, Nev, American, born 1984
- Sampson, Kendrick, American, born 1988
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Floyd, George Perry Jr., American, 1973 - 2020
- BLD PWR, American, founded 2018
- Date
- June 6, 2020
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- H x W: 2949 pixels × 6720 pixels
- File size: 113.42 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 Nev Schulman and Kendrick Sampson with a crowd of protesters in a Black Lives Matter protest in Beverly Hills, California. The image was taken by Tommy Oliver during the protests that followed the death of George Floyd. Schulman and Sampson are facing the viewer and are marching within a group of tightly packed protesters on a city street. Schulman is shown from the chest up in the front left foreground. He is wearing a black, short sleeve T-shirt with partially cropped white text across the chest that reads [BLACK / LIVES] and dark heart-shaped sunglasses. Behind Schulman’s proper left shoulder is Sampson. Sampson is shown from the chest up, speaking into a handheld microphone attached to a bullhorn. He is holding the bullhorn upright on his proper left shoulder while speaking into the microphone in his proper right hand. He is wearing a black T-shirt with white text on the chest that reads [BLD / [PW?]R]. He is also wearing a black skull cap and a black face mask with the white piping that has been pulled down and is resting on his collarbone. Many of the protesters surrounding them are wearing face masks or other types of protective face coverings. Held above Schulman’s and Sampson’s heads are two large protest signs. The partially obscured sign on the left has hand painted text reads [WE WON’T / BE SILENT / NO JUSTICE / NO P[EACE?]]. The cardboard sign on the right with black, handwritten text reads [BLACK / LIVES / MATTER]. A black protest sign with white hand painted text on the far right reads [I WILL / NEVER / UNDERSTAND / BUT I / [S?]TAND]. In the background are several tall, multi-storied buildings, streetlights and signs, palm trees, and leafy trees. Two slightly blurred street signs above the crowd reads [Canon Dr].
- Place captured
- Beverly Hills, 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
- Actors
- Justice
- Photography
- Police brutality
- Race relations
- Resistance
- 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
- 2021.31.49
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Tommy Oliver
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




