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Not their first rodeo: How Black riders are reclaiming their place in cowboy culture

7:00am February 19, 2022

Black cowboys are often missing in pop culture depictions of cowboy culture. In reality, they have been a big part of cowboy history, as some estimates suggest as many as 1 in 4 cowboys were Black.

A ski jumper flies overhead on the 60-meter ski jump at the Suicide Hill Ski Bowl in Ishpeming, Mich. on March 7, 2021. The Suicide Hill Ski Bowl is home to 5 ski jumps - one being the infamous 90-meter Suicide Hill Ski Jump.

America's birthplace of organized skiing is in Michigan, here's what it looks like

7:29am February 05, 2022

Michigan photographer Nic Antaya started a documenting Ishpeming Ski Club to understand how it has birthed a handful of Olympic athletes and its culture.

Discovery of Holocaust-era photos helps a Jewish family connect with its past

5:04am January 31, 2022

by Greg Allen

The U.S. Holocaust Museum has acquired rare photos of a French internment camp where 18,000 Jews were imprisoned before being sent to Auschwitz. (Story originally aired on Jan. 27, 2021 on ATC.)

A man cries over his mother's grave in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery, in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, on Sept. 29, 2020. Iris Gonçalves Alves died at age 54 the previous day from COVID-19, according to the information on her burial record. During the

What happens when isolation goes beyond a pandemic

8:55am January 17, 2022

Photographer Raphael Alves documented how socioeconomic issues worsen the COVID-19 pandemic in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.

A police car on fire during a protest in Almaty on Wednesday.

World News

Photos: Dramatic scenes from Kazakhstan's massive protests and crackdown

12:57pm January 07, 2022

by Marco Storel

Here are some of the images of the unrest this week in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, where the authoritarian government is fighting to quash large public protests.

Blend, a Kurd from Iraq, considers himself lucky. He has only spent 14 days in a camp on the Belarusian side of the border and five days in the woods after crossing to the Polish side. When his kidney problems started to become unbearable because of lack

World News

This photographer captured how activists helped migrants at the Poland-Belarus border

10:48am January 03, 2022

Polish-based photographer Kasia Strek documented what it was like for migrants and people in Poland as the crisis evolved at the border in November.

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Flood survivors, former sex slaves, fantastic masks: Top global photo stories of 2021

1:19pm January 01, 2022

by Malaka Gharib

The power of photos can be seen in our most popular picture essays of the year, with compelling images from South Sudan, the Philippines, Mexico (check out those artistic face coverings) and more.

Carl Stanojevic, a photographer in Australia, literally took the trash out

6:32am December 28, 2021

A neighbor, who was away, asked Stanojevic to take out his trash. Stanojevic took the green wheelie trash can to a duck pond, a hardware store, Burger King and to a bar. Taking photos at each spot.

A team of nurses, patient care technicians and a respiratory therapist prepare to return a COVID patient to their back after 24 hours of lying on their stomach. That posture makes it easier to breathe and is a critical part of treatment for COVID patients

Intimate portraits of a hospital COVID unit from a photojournalist-turned-nurse

2:28pm December 26, 2021

by Victoria Hansen

Alan Hawes hopes his photos of health care workers and COVID patients will show the toll of this pandemic — and persuade the unvaccinated to get their COVID shots.

Fire crews manage a back fire in Sly Park, Calif., fighting the Caldor Fire on Aug. 23. Full Story

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NPR member station photographers share memorable photos from 2021

11:59am December 22, 2021

Photographers from NPR's member stations across the country share memorable images from 2021. There are stories that document grief to ones that spread joy in a tumultuous year.