Race/Related: A protester, the White House and a doctored photo
The White House often shares A.I. images. A recent photo of a Minneapolis protester was different.
Race/Related
February 6, 2026

When Nekima Levy Armstrong was transported, shackled, from the federal courthouse in St. Paul, Minn., to a county jail, it was the closest, she said, that she had ever felt to slavery. Still, she walked calmly, her face resolute, her head held high. But if you saw a photograph that the White House disseminated of Levy Armstrong, you would not know it.

A portrait of Nekima Levy Armstrong, who is wearing a pink blazer.

Victor J. Blue for The New York Times

Read more about Nekima Levy Armstrong and the White House’s distorted image. →

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