Photograph of Dr. Harry Edwards with NMAAHC staff and scholar activists

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A digital image of activist and sociologist Dr. Harry Edwards with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Curator of Sports, Dr. Damion Thomas, and oral historian Kelly Elaine Navies along with two scholar activists, Natalie Riddick (Loyola Marymount University) and Kailyn Bailey (Howard University), at the San Jose State University in California. Navies coordinated the Social Justice Conversations Oral History Project. Riddick and Bailey were both interviewers for the project, with Riddick interviewing Dr. Edwards. The image captures the five individuals standing side-by-side, their arms around one another and smiling directly into the camera. Dr. Thomas, on the far left, wears a grey sports coat and navy blue pants. Navies, to the proper left of Dr. Thomas, wears a black knit dress with a necklace. Dr. Edwards, in the middle, wears an all-black out fit with a black beanie and sunglasses. Riddick, to the proper left of Dr.

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