Cover of The New Yorker for May 20, 2024 print edition: “Class of 2024,” by Barry Blitt. A young white woman in ankle-strap block-heel shoes, graduation gown, mortarboard, and orange stole indicating an engineering degree, her long red hair flowing back with same. The student has a toothy grin, standing facing to the left, in front of a faculty member in brown shoes, green pants, purple and grey-brown gown with stripes on one arm and an orange collar, a mortarboard on is bald cap and his eyes hidden by round-rim eyeglasses, a close-lipped smile evident amidst his white beard. He holds a large while scroll of paper scroll with a red ribbon in his left hand, has out, open palm almost as if he were about to shake hands with the young woman. Only her hands are zip tied behind her back. A disinterested cop in blue uniform and cap stands to her right, the holster and butt of his gun visible. Behind the faculty member, another, larger cop can be seen roughly escorting a hunched figure in a similar gown, grasping his red-ribbon scroll in both zip-tied hands, off stage left. Another cop in sunglasses can be seen behind the woman's escort, his gaze turned toward us, looking over the head of young black man, in engineering orange stole, pinstripe pants and black shoes peeking out beneath his gown. Background a pink curtain with yellow valance. Foreground, heads, shoulders in mortarboards, gowns, no stoles. Notably, what we see of front-row seated audience all seem to be white.

Cover of The New Yorker for May 20, 2024 print edition: “Class of 2024,” by Barry Blitt. A young white woman in ankle-strap block-heel shoes, graduation gown, mortarboard, and orange stole indicating an engineering degree, her long red hair flowing back with same. The student has a toothy grin, standing facing to the left, in front of a faculty member in brown shoes, green pants, purple and grey-brown gown with stripes on one arm and an orange collar, a mortarboard on is bald cap and his eyes hidden by round-rim eyeglasses, a close-lipped smile evident amidst his white beard. He holds a large while scroll of paper scroll with a red ribbon in his left hand, has out, open palm almost as if he were about to shake hands with the young woman. Only her hands are zip tied behind her back. A disinterested cop in blue uniform and cap stands to her right, the holster and butt of his gun visible. Behind the faculty member, another, larger cop can be seen roughly escorting a hunched figure in a similar gown, grasping his red-ribbon scroll in both zip-tied hands, off stage left. Another cop in sunglasses can be seen behind the woman's escort, his gaze turned toward us, looking over the head of young black man, in engineering orange stole, pinstripe pants and black shoes peeking out beneath his gown. Background a pink curtain with yellow valance. Foreground, heads, shoulders in mortarboards, gowns, no stoles. Notably, what we see of front-row seated audience all seem to be white.
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