Photograph of Fania Davis with NMAAHC staff and scholar activists

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A digital image of social justice activist and civil rights attorney Fania Davis with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s oral historian, Kelly Elaine Navies, along with two scholar activists, Natalie Riddick and Kailyn Bailey, at the office of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, a non-profit organization Davis helped establish. Navies coordinated the Social Justice Conversations Oral History Project Riddick. Bailey and Riddick were both interviewers for the project, with Bailey interviewing Muse. The image captures Bailey, Davis, and Riddick sitting side-by-side with Navies sitting behind Bailey and Davis. Bailey, on the left, wears a sky color, long-sleeve shirt with a purple and orange paisley patterned scarf. Davis, in the middle, wears a black, poncho-like garment with line designs, a brown/green scarf, and large, leaf-shaped silver earrings with black pants. She wears a large cuff on each wrist. Riddick, on the right, wears a white, flowery top with multi-colored headband.

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