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A story of dance and discipline amid a global pandemic in the Llanos

May 21, 2022
During a global pandemic in Orocué, Colombia, dance and adversity brought a group together.
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Colombian cowboys are known as <em>llaneros</em>, Spanish for plainsmen.

South America's traditional cowboys are still at home on the range in Colombia

May 15, 2022
livestock in Colombia are raised on vast, open ranges. Overseeing the herds requires the special skills of Colombian cowboys who are known as llaneros — Spanish for "plainsmen."
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A man stands outside a residential building in Kyiv that was struck by a missile last week. Residents returned to collect their belongings, clean up and board up the building's broken windows.

Kyiv residents begin to find calm after Russian forces' retreat

May 10, 2022
Ukrainians in Kyiv are starting to piece their lives back together as the Russian invasion enters its third month. Even in moments of calm, residents still live with the threat of airstrikes.
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<strong>BOSTON</strong>: Protesters begin marching down Park Street during the Defend Abortion Rights rally at the Massachusetts State House.

See protests grow across the country as the Supreme Court deals with Roe v. Wade leak

May 03, 2022
Marches for and against abortion rights swell after a leaked draft opinion shows a majority of the Supreme Court is ready to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling that established the right to abortion.
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See All The Best Looks From The Met Gala 2022

May 02, 2022
It's the annual high-stakes fashion soiree is a major money-maker for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute and an opportunity for mega-wattage stars and influencers to turn out in style.
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Jean Baylor pointing to the next song on the list, for the Baylor Project album "Generations", 2020, at Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, NY, 2018.

In the studio for International Jazz Day

Apr 30, 2022
April 30th is International Jazz Day. Jazz Night in America tapped photographer Deneka Peniston to share scenes from recording sessions featuring jazz artists who are shaping the music today.
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<strong>April 25:</strong> A Ukrainian serviceman walks amid the rubble of a building heavily damaged by multiple Russian bombardments near a frontline in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Photos: More than 5 million have fled Ukraine as Russia's invasion continues

Apr 26, 2022
Orthodox Easter weekend did not stop Russian forces from attacking their targets in eastern Ukraine.
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Capt. Daniil, a public affairs officer in the Ukrainian military, walks through a field in Mala Rohan, on the outskirts of Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv. He is recording the aftermath of fighting between occupying Russian soldiers and Ukrainian

Photos: Russian forces were driven out of this village outside Kharkiv, Ukraine

Apr 22, 2022
Last month, Ukrainian forces pushed the Russians out of the village of Mala Rohan. NPR goes inside the warehouse Russia had used as temporary barracks.
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Tree planters stop to sample some wild berries during a long walk out to their crew vehicles

How planting trees fostered a sense of belonging and changed this filmmaker's life

Apr 22, 2022
Cinematographer Luc Forsyth documents the back-breaking manual labor and niche community of tree planting.
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<strong>April 18:</strong> Ukrainians wait as Red Cross relief workers distribute food in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine.

Photos: Russian air strikes hit targets in Lviv, Kharkiv and across Ukraine

Apr 18, 2022
Russia continues to work to get control of eastern Ukraine as the country's forces refuse to surrender.
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Dominic Gilbert Petit-Frère and Melvis Twum-Barima in Flatbush, Brooklyn, 1992. "Two immigrants lovers who fell in love at first site. One from Ghana and the other from Haiti. The love was profound and timeless."

Black and Latinx New Yorkers reframe their experiences through archival photos

Apr 18, 2022
Inspired by Veteranas and Rucas, Djali Brown-Cepeda, a Black Indigenous Latina, created the NuevaYorkinos and BLK THEN archival projects to showcase people like herself in New York City.
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Dominic Gilbert Petit-Frère y Melvis Twum-Barima. Flatbush, Brooklyn, 1992. "Dos inmigrantes que se enamoraron a primera vista. Una de Ghana y el otro de Haití. El amor era profundo y eterno."

Proyectos de archivo exploran la experiencia Afrolatinx y Negra en Nueva York

Apr 18, 2022
Djali Brown-Cepeda, una latina indígena negra, creó los proyectos de archivo NuevaYorkinos y BLK THEN para mostrar las experiencias de personas como ella en la ciudad de Nueva York.
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<strong>April 11:</strong> Firefighters work to extinguish a fire resulting from a Russian attack at a house in Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine.

Photos: Kyiv suburbs continue to recover bodies after Russia's occupation ends

Apr 12, 2022
U.S. officials say they continue to see signs that Russian forces are moving into eastern Ukraine for what is expected to be a large-scale offensive in the coming days.
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Valentina Kuzmenka cries as she says goodbye to her daughter, putting her on a bus with Project Dynamo to get her out of Ukraine.

Meet the rescue team extracting people trapped in Kyiv suburbs under siege

Apr 12, 2022
U.S. combat veteran Bryan Stern runs a nonprofit called Project Dynamo that extracts people from hostile places. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the organization has rescued more than 400 people.
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A monument for Taras Shevchenko is symbolically protected by bandages in Borodyanka, northwest of Kyiv.

This is what a Ukraine town looks like after Russian troops withdraw

Apr 09, 2022
The residents of Borodyanka are picking up the pieces after Russian forces withdrew and left behind a shattered town. Hundreds of people are still missing, presumed buried under rubble.
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<strong>April 3:</strong> A woman walks amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv.

Photos: Russian attacks leave catastrophic scenes, as many flee or are displaced

Apr 04, 2022
Ukraine has launched an investigation into war crimes officials believe have been committed by Russian forces during the course of the invasion.
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Martin Luther King Jr. leads a civil rights march to Boston Common in Massachusetts in 1965.<em> </em>

To honor her dad's legacy, she's sharing his historic photos of MLK, Jackie O and more

Apr 03, 2022
Judy Polumbaum spent 20 years after her father's death combing through his archives and interviewing his friends and family members. The result is the new book "All Available Light."
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<strong>Istanbul, Turkey:</strong> Muslim worshippers perform a night prayer called 'tarawih' during the eve of the first day of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan  at Hagia Sophia mosque on Friday, April 1, 2022.

See how almost a quarter of humanity ushered in Ramadan, their holiest month

Apr 02, 2022
From sun-up to sundown, physically able Muslims will fast — abstaining not just from food but also so much as a sip of water.
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Dionisia Cruz, 76, stands in her roofless kitchen after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico in September 2017.

Meet 5 women documenting the effects of climate change around the world

Mar 31, 2022
In honor of Women's History Month, NPR takes a look at five women photographing the worst effects of climate change around the world.
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Religious icons are framed in a home for the elderly in Khurvaleti, Georgia.

Russia's war in Ukraine reminds Georgians of what they survived in 2008

Mar 31, 2022
In Georgia, people living on the frontlines of Russia's 2008 invasion say they worry about what Putin's war in Ukraine will mean for them.
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<strong>March 25:</strong> An elderly woman from Bishiv village is seen over the destruction of a library on the outskirts of the city of Kyiv, Ukraine.

Photos: Ukrainians seek refuge as Russia continues attacks in the west

Mar 26, 2022
The displacement of the millions of lives in Ukraine, a month into Russian invasion, is evident in images of sliced-open apartment buildings, dogs in arms and children's belongings left behind.
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<strong>March 21:</strong> Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in for her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing.

Photos: See what happened at hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson

Mar 25, 2022
A look into the last few days of the Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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Lev Kalashnikov, 35, is a tech entrepreneur who's created Telegram groups to help other Russians get settled in Tbilisi.

Meet the Russians who are fleeing — not the war, but their own government

Mar 25, 2022
Thousands of Russians have left their country since their government began its invasion of Ukraine. Many have settled in Georgia, a country with a complicated history with its neighbor to the north.
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<strong>March 19: </strong>People gather in a basement, used as a bomb shelter, during an air raid in Lviv, Western Ukraine.

Photos: Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues to bring death and displacement

Mar 19, 2022
On the fourth week of the war over 3.2 million Ukrainians have fled the country, another 6.5 million people have been displaced within Ukraine.
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Maksim Chepchenko near a burning home in in Irpin, Ukraine, after Russian bombings on Saturday.

A photojournalist in Ukraine heads toward deadly conflict to humanize war

Mar 19, 2022
The deaths of three journalists this week in Ukraine are a reminder of the perils of covering conflicts from behind a camera. Photojournalist Marcus Yam is on assignment in Kyiv covering the war.
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