Articles by Riccardo Gazzaniga - GRIOT Magazine
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The White Man in That Photo
Riccardo Gazzaniga - GRIOT Magazine,
2 Oct 2017
I always saw the photo as a powerful image of two barefoot black men, with their heads bowed, their black-gloved fists in the air while the US National Anthem played. It was a strong symbolic gesture – taking a stand for African American civil rights in a year of tragedies that included the death of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy.
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Riccardo Gazzaniga - GRIOT Magazine,
3 Oct 2016
3 Oct 2016 – Today marks the 10th anniversary of Peter Norman’s passing. We want to commemorate him by publishing the story of the Australian sprinter. It’s a historic photo of two men of color rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. For this reason I never really paid attention to the other man, white, motionless on the second step of the medal podium.
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