Archival Instagram Accounts Are Teaching Forgotten Histories

People of color are informing others of those who need their flowers

Nicole Froio
ZORA
Published in
5 min readSep 4, 2020

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Archival photo from 1899 of Lavinia Baker and her family.
Lavinia Baker with her family, 1899. Photo: Library of Congress Photo Archives

Until recently, Instagram was not known for its political potential. The app was widely understood as the land of influencers, curated realities, and vapidness — and though its political potential has recently been harnessed by the proliferation of…

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Nicole Froio
ZORA
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