Schools Cancel Class Photos After Leon Black named in Epstein Files

Jeffrey Epstein, Pepe Fanjul and Leon Black attend Sony Pictures Classics Presents "Capote"in New York, Sept. 28, 2005. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images, FILE

High Schools across the US canceled photo day after it was learned that the former CEO and chairman of Apollo Global Management, Leon Black name was recently found in the Epstein files.

Lifetouch, the largest school photography company, is owned by Apollo Global, opening the possibility that those photographs could have ended up sold to pedophiles or even among classified documents on Trump's bathroom floor, or any random place for that matter.

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Districts in Texas, Arizona, New Jersey, and California launched reviews or canceled photo days “out of an abundance of caution.” Parents flooded social media with fury, raising fears — often without evidence — that sensitive student data could be misused.

“Imagine pedophiles having a shopping list of children,” one viral post warned.

As sickening as this is, the possibility of your child's picture being shared among Epstein co-conspirators didn't make NPR's top Epstein news of the week.

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Ken Murphy, Lifetouch Group CEO said in a public statement, "When Lifetouch photographers take your student’s picture, that image is safeguarded for families and schools, only, with no exceptions. Lifetouch does not – and has never provided – images to any third party.

Black had a long, verifiable relationship with Epstein, so what's with all the parental outrage?

Occupy Democrats put it very succinctly in a Facebook post: "When billionaire financiers tied to a convicted sex offender sit atop companies embedded in schools nationwide, parents are right to demand transparency. Even indirect links to Epstein are enough to shatter confidence — especially after years of elite institutions shrugging off his crimes until it was too late."

Brasil Once Again Tops The List with 80 Transgender Murders

Bruna Benevides, ANTRA president, will be the keynote speaker at the University of Chicago on March 31, 2026, on the Transgender Day of Visibility. Click here to register.

Brasil, which has long held the number one spot for transgender murders, recorded 80 such deaths during 2025, down from 122 in 2024, a 34% decrease according to Agência Brasil

The figures come from the latest edition of a dossier produced by the country’s National Association of Transsexual and Transgender People (ANTRA), released this week.

The result represents a drop of 34 percent from the previous year’s 122 murders – but does not remove Brazil from the top of the ranking, a position it has held for almost 18 years.

"The data is a reflection of an entire system that normalizes oppression against transgender people," said ANTRA’s President Bruna Benevides.

Bruna Benevides, also an author of the dossier, believes that the association’s report “is an embarrassment to the state,” educates society, and breaks the silence.

“We must recognize that policies to protect women need to be accessible and available to transgender women, for instance. We need to think about making what already exists accessible and implementing what has not yet been properly achieved. There is a lot of production, including data, but a lack of action on the part of decision-makers,” she added.

If trans people didn't report on the violence targeting our community, our murders would go unnoticed.

These numbers align with TransLivesMatter, which reported 73 murders during 2025. The potential under-reporting by the UK-based Translivesmatter project could be attributed to Brasil's unique language, Português Brasileiro. It is difficult to translate even for someone from Portugal, and murders often are not reported using Google search.