20 Global Activists Are Center Stage on British Vogue's September 2020 'Activism Now' Cover

Manchester United and England footballer Marcus Rashford joins Adwoa Aboah, model and leading mental heath activist, on the cover of British Vogue’s September issue.

Aboah traveled to Marcus’s garden in Manchester for their cover shot, by Misan Harriman, the BLM protest photographer who first picked up a camera three years ago.

Harriman set up his digital media business, What We Seee, in 2016 (subscribe to the newsletter), after a career in finance.

Now we see his images of Aboah and Rashford in a fold-out cover featuring 18 other global activists. and fellow photographers Texas Isaiah, Philip-Daniel Ducasse, Reginald Cunningham and Chrisean Rose.

In early June, Norwegian-born, British writer Afua Hirsch, who interviewed the activists featured in the September issue, emerged from London Underground’s Vauxhall station to the discovery of an entirely new vibe in the streets. Hirsch recollects in British Vogue the moment she joined a protest — holding hands with two small girls — against the broadcast-live murder by Minneapolis police of George Floyd: “ . . . as I stepped up on to that street, I felt an outpouring of raw, ancestral anger and outrage against racism on a scale I’ve never experienced before.”