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WITH OUR EYES CLOSED A MEDITATION ON HATE-BASED VIOLENCE

Cemetery. Stovall Plantation, Mississippi

Emanuel A.M.E. Church, Charleston, SC.

"He caught us with our eyes closed. I never told nobody this." Felicia Sanders, survivor of mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church.

"We were just about to say the prayer to be released," said Felicia Sanders, one of three people who survived when a gunman opened fire during Bible study at her Charleston, South Carolina, church on June 17, 2015.

(left) McLeod Plantation 'home for enslaved family'. (above) Fire hydrant with names of visitors to the memorial site at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC.

Gravedigging. Marks, Mississippi.

A family visiting the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston to pay their respects to the nine people murdered by Dylan Roof. No one in the family knew personally any of the nine people killed on that day in June, yet they had driven several hours to pay their respects.

Neo-Nazis protesting the removal of the Confederate flag from the state capitol building in Columbia, SC.

Ku Klux Klan Organizing Rally in Madison, Indiana.

Street in the aftermath of the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, VA., 2017.

On August 12, 2017, a car was deliberately driven into a crowd of people who had been peacefully protesting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one and injuring 28. The driver of the car, 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., had driven from Ohio to attend the rally.

Street memorial for Heather Heyer

Jason Kessler (holding flag) organized The "Unite the Right 2" rally on August 12, 2018 in Washington, D.C.to mark the first anniversary of the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally which resulted in the death of Heather Heyer.

Mother of All Rallies, 2017.

Anti-Hate Rally, Philadelphia, PA, 2018

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