These 16 cadets might not graduate because of a photo.

The U.S. Military Academy has opened an investigation into a photo of 16 black, female cadets in uniform with their fists raised. The photo has raised ...


• The U.S. Military Academy has opened an investigation into a photo of 16 black, female cadets in uniform with their fists raised.

• The photo has raised a bit of controversy online in recent days as some have said it suggests support for the Black Lives Matter movement, which could amount to a violation of Army rules against participating in political activity while in uniform.

• The Army Times was the first to write about the photo, reporting that “the image has been shared widely in military circles.” In its first story, Army Times was sure to point out that while the raised fist is now associated with the Black Lives Matter movement, it’s hardly original and has been “used for centuries to symbolize resistance by a number of groups, from labor unions to suffragists to socialists to the Black Panthers.”

• The chairwoman of the academy’s Board of Visitors, Brenda Sue Fulton, later told Army Times that while she tweeted out a different photo of the 16 women, she would not have done the same with the picture that shows them raising their fists.

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