25 portraits that show how diverse the MLK march was
Please note: This article is published as an archive copy from Philadelphia City Paper. My City Paper is not affiliated with Philadelphia City Paper. Philadelphia City Paper was an alternative weekly newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The last edition was published on October 8, 2015.
A very wide swath of the city turned out to the big march today. We shot some portraits of people in the crowd.
The maybe 2000 people who turned out for the Martin Luther King Jr./$15 minimum wage/education funding/whatever march this afternoon were a diverse bunch in race, age, cause, signage and apparel. To properly illustrate this, we ran around asking people if we could take their picture. Most were happy to let us stick a camera up in their face. (Although, shoutout to the teenage-or-early-20s white woman with blue hair who said she'd rather not have her photo taken because she'd prefer the focus to remain on people of color.) You can check out the results in the gallery above.
