Award-winning photographer Camilo José Vergara has snapped dozens of pictures of Malcolm X, as depicted in murals in poor communities of color across the United States. A drug-treatment center in Detroit features this mural of Malcolm standing out among a crowd of great black intellectuals, organizers, and artists.
Camilo José VergaraCamilo José Vergara is a photographer and the author of numerous books. You can see Vergara’s photographs documenting the pandemic in the Library of Congress, which houses his archive, and online.