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To one America, he has long been a beacon of the civil-rights movement—the man met Dr. King! To another, he was a loudmouth in a tracksuit, surrounded by controversy and shady friends—the man knows Don King, too. Pulitzer Prize winner Mitchell S. Jackson tailed Al Sharpton around the country to find out why he keeps going, what he’s still doing, and where his place in history will be.

Students at Sanford H. Calhoun High School took part in a voter registration event on Jan. 18, organized by the school’s Racial Equity Club, in honor of the Week of Service the district celebrates to accompany Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Janette Beckman has spent four decades documenting underground movements from London’s punks and the birth of hip-hop to LA gangs and illegal girls’ fight clubs. How does she win her subjects’ trust?

0,0 | Viel los in Ostfriesland | AfD-Chaos Von Joachim Braun Das Wichtigste aus der Region, jeden Morgen um 6.26 Uhr zusammengefasst von der Chefredaktion der Ostfriesen-Zeitung. Man könnte fast meinen, es sei nun wieder alles normal und die Pandemie beendet. Im Landkreis Leer beträgt nicht nur die Sieben-Tage-Inzidenz 0,0, seit dem Wochenende ist auch kein einziger Corona-Fall mehr registriert. Auch anderswo in Ostfriesland ist derzeit die Gefahr, beim Überqueren einer Straße angefahren zu...

Get Out the Vote: Creative Ideas for Photographers By Ellyn Kail on October 4, 2020 “Photographers are the hidden heroes of getting out the vote,” Andy Bernstein, the Executive Director at HeadCount, a non-partisan organization that works with musicians to register voters and promote participation in democracy, tells us.  Over the past few months, his organization has worked with photographers to take pictures of hundreds of musicians and influencers wearing VOTE masks or holding ‘Regis...