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Celeste Sloman

Sisters Dana Cobbs and Darcey Cobbs-Lomax lost both their father and paternal grandmother to COVID-19 in April 2020. Evelyn Cobbs was rushed to the hospital in ambulances just one day after her son Morgan—and the two died within a week of one another. Photographer Celeste Sloman took this virtual portrait of the sisters, who had to say goodbye to their loved ones from a distance due to the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Portrait of Michelle Duster, descendent of Ida B Wells. Michelle Duster is an award-winning author, speaker, and educator. In Chicago she has worked to honour the legacy of her paternal great-grandmother, Ida B. Wells – a key figure in the early movement for Civil Rights in the U.S.

This is the first year that youth activist Winter BreeAnne, a student at Howard University in Washington, D.C., will be old enough to vote for president. A veteran of several get-out-the-vote campaigns, the Riverside, California, teen has developed a program to promote civic engagement among youths.

New York, USA: Out-of-service taxi cabs fill a parking lot. "As a born-and-raised New Yorker," says photographer Celeste Sloman, "the quiet that we are experiencing now is something unfathomable, calming, surreal, and profoundly unsettling at the same time."