<p>Alena Battle of Charlotte, North Carolina, holds her son, Tamaj Bulloch, during the “Get Your Knee Off Our Necks” Commitment March in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 2020. The event, on the <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/fractured-traumatized-nation-marches-washington-57-years-later" target="_blank">57th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs</a> and Freedom, honored the original protest while emphasizing the work still to be done, especially for police and criminal justice reform.</p>
Alena Battle of Charlotte, North Carolina, holds her son, Tamaj Bulloch, during the “Get Your Knee Off Our Necks” Commitment March in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 2020. The event, on the 57th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, honored the original protest while emphasizing the work still to be done, especially for police and criminal justice reform.
Photograph by Joshua Rashaad McFadden, National Geographic
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