Episode
Chester Higgins, Global Photography and the Spirit of Our Worlds — Episode 6
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- Global I AM Conversations
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- Jun 12, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1918
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Summary
Send us Fan Mail Chester Higgins Jr. is not simply a photographer. He is one of the great visual historians of the Black world — a man whose lens transformed memory into sacred text. A longtime staff photographer for The New York Times for nearly four decades, Higgins captured the spiritual architecture of Black life with extraordinary dignity and force. His photographs of Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, and Amiri Baraka at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture remain among the most ...