Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits is a book of portraits that serves as an introduction and basic visual support for the history of African American population from the mid-nineteenth century to the present through the changing roles of photographic portraiture. If the most important elements in a portrait hands, eyes, body language… we can summarize them all just by looking at its cover that, in this case, tells a lot about the inner content. This publication, collects the content of an exhibition that inaugurates The Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History & Culture. A very interesting characters: Muhammad Ali, Billie Holiday, Amiri Baraka, Malcolm X, Ernest Everett Just… and great photographs by Linda McCartney, Mapplethorpe or Gordon Parks.