Buttigieg Campaign Used Stock Photo of Kenyan Woman to Illustrate Plan for Black America

The photo of the woman kneeling and talking to a child, selected from an assortment of stock photos available for public reuse, was first posted over the summer as part of the rollout of Mr. Buttigieg’s “Douglass Plan,” billed as “a comprehensive investment in the empowerment of black America.”

The plan includes health care, education and voting-rights reforms as well as proposals to address discrimination in policing and criminal justice.

Mr. Buttigieg has failed to gain traction among black voters — a critical constituency in the path to the Democratic nomination — even as polls show he is building support in largely white Iowa. A poll of likely Democratic primary voters in South Carolina, released Monday by Quinnipiac University, found that Mr. Buttigieg had the support of less than 1 percent of black voters.

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