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Powerful Photo of the Day: Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson — descendants of Homer Adolph Plessy and John Howard Ferguson of the infamous racial-segregation-upholding Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson — stand on the very same spot in New Orleans where Plessy was arrested for refusing to move from the whites-only rail car, triggering the landmark case.

Keith, the great-grandson of Homer Plessy’s first cousin, and Phoebe, the great-great-granddaughter of John Ferguson, met in 2004 and founded the Plessy & Ferguson Foundation — an organization dedicated to civil rights education — a short time later.

“The first thing I said to her,” Plessy says about their initial encounter, “was, ‘Hey, it’s no longer Plessy versus Ferguson. It’s Plessy and Ferguson’.”

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Photo Series of the Day: The latest additions to Annie Leibovitz’s “Disney Dream Portrait” series are up at the Disney Parks Blog.

This round features Olivia Wilde and Alec Baldwin as the Evil Queen and the spirit of the magic mirror from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, along with Penelope Cruz and Jeff Bridges as Belle and the transformed prince from Beauty and the Beast. A third one depicting Queen Latifah as Ursula from The Little Mermaid can be seen at the source.

You can see the rest of the Disney Dream Portraits photographed to date over here.

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