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  • Sophia Ybarra, 7, with a broken tibia<br />
Elgin, Texas<br />
From the American Family series
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  • Michela Anderson, a senior at Oak Park and River Forest High School, poses for a portrait on campus. Anderson is a co-founder of SAFE -- Students Advocating for Equity -- which educates students on issues such as consent and equality.<br />
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For the New York Times<br />
‘You’re Not Supposed to Betray Your Race’: The Challenge Faced by Black Women Accusing Black Men<br />
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/us/meredith-watson-duke-justin-fairfax.html
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  • Bay City, Michigan -- Monday, March 2, 2020<br />
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Kim Matula (cq) poses for a portrait at Car & Credit, a used car lot in Bay City. Matula, whose car had broken down, was using her tax return to buy a new one. Matula works as a cook at Coonan’s Irish Hub where she makes $15 an hour, one of the better hourly wages available in Bay City other than at the GM plant.<br />
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In the 2016 election, the long Democratic-leaning and union-supporting Bay County voted to elected Donald Trump. <br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times  <br />
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  • Curtis Bay, Maryland -- Saturday, March 28, 2020<br />
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Maurice Baze takes a cigarette break while delivery packages in suburban Baltimore, Maryland. Baze said his workload of deliveries was exceptionally high for this time of the year.<br />
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From Sebastian Herrera’s story: “As government orders to stay at home have taken hold around the U.S., Amazon order volumes have shot up to levels akin to holiday season, employees said. Usually, the company has months to prepare such an uptick in volume. During the pandemic, it has had weeks, and the strain is showing in shortages, delays and worker unease.”<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Wall Street Journal<br />
Slug: “AMAZONVIRUS”<br />
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  • Sgt. Chris Lindahl, Iowa National Guard's 2-34th BSB mechanic shop in the Parwan province of Afghanistan<br />
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Chicago Freelance Documentary Photographer | Alyssa Schukar | Photojournalist
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  • Pat Baranowski was the personal secretary to Rev. Bill Hybels at the Willow Creek Community Church, one of the largest megachurches in the U.S. Hybels resigned in October 2017 after several reports of inappropriate sexual behavior toward female congregants. Read Baranowski's account: He's a Superstar Pastor. She Worked for Him and Says He Groped Her Repeatedly. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/us/bill-hybels-willow-creek-pat-baranowski.html
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  • Rancher Randy Thompson owns land in Nebraska where TransCanada's Keystone Pipeline is proposed to cross. Thompson, who is a symbol of the opposition and one of the three landowner plaintiffs in Thompson v. Heineman, has had his likeness used on bumperstickers and t-shirt in the anti-pipeline slogan "I Stand with Randy" after he was arrested in Washington, D.C. for protesting the Keystone in 2013. | Chicago Freelance Photographer | Alyssa Schukar | Photojournalist
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  • Student D’Ondre Senter takes a swim break downstream from the Jimenoa Waterfall near La Joya, Jarabacoa. During a two-week trip to the Dominican Republic, a dozen young students from Chicago -- a city deeply fractured along ethnic and socioeconomic lines -- developed an understanding of how racism, colonialism, gender inequality and poverty influence Dominicans’ lives. The students discussed how their own skin color is perceived in America, and they learned how nationality and ethnicity can affect how people understand the world. Despite the geographic and cultural differences that separate these students from their Dominican peers, they learned they had more in common than they would have guessed.
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  • Regimental Commander Sarah Zorn and Regimental Executive Officer David Days participate in an hour-long Navy SEAL-style physical training intensive on the beach at sunset. <br />
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Sarah Zorn is the first female Regimental Commander of the Corps of Cadets at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.<br />
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Chicago Freelance Photographer | Alyssa Schukar | Photojournalist
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  • Sgt. Damian Broderson, Iowa National Guard's 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division in Gardez, Afghanistan<br />
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Chicago Freelance Documentary Photographer | Alyssa Schukar | Photojournalist
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  • Robyn Byrd, who dated Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi, poses for a portrait in her home in Aurora, Illinois.<br />
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Byrd was a minor at the time of the relationship.<br />
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Chicago Freelance Photographer | Alyssa Schukar | Photojournalist
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  • Boilermaker Brian Sharman poses for a portrait as he works on a pulverizer used to grind coal at the E.W. Brown Generating Station, which was powered down for maintenance.<br />
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The plant harnesses four forms of energy production: coal, gas, hydro and solar. Despite efforts to lessen environmental impacts, the station is entangled in a lawsuit over coal ash -- the toxic residue produced from burning coal -- which was buried in contact with groundwater that flows into Herrington Lake. The lake is connected to the Kentucky River through a tributary.<br />
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Chicago Freelance Photographer | Alyssa Schukar | Photojournalist
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  • Shirley Romero Otero is a Chicana activist from San Luis, the oldest indigenous community in the state of Colorado. An heir to the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant, her community is dealing with its own fight for water. "When we heard about this particular struggle, our hearts pulled us this way because the next battle after losing our land is truly the fight for water," she said.<br />
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When visitors turn off a narrow North Dakota highway and drive into the Sacred Stone camp where thousands have come to protest an oil pipeline, they thread through an arcade of flags whipping in the North Dakota wind. Each represent one of 280 Native American tribes that have flocked here in what activists are calling the largest, most diverse tribal action in at least a century, perhaps since Little Bighorn.<br />
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Chicago Freelance Photographer | Alyssa Schukar | Photojournalist
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  • Britt, Iowa -- <br />
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Tim “Train” Dittmar smokes in an old boxcar at the Hobo Jungle.<br />
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Every August, travelers and train enthusiasts convene in Britt, a town of 2,000 in north central Iowa, to celebrate Hobo Days. As visitors and locals enjoy a traditional small town festival on Main Avenue, members of the National Hobo Convention assemble in the Jungle, a gathering place alongside the train tracks on the edge of town. They come together to see old friends and to ensure that the history of the hobo will be honored and remembered.<br />
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Photography by Alyssa Schukar for The Smithsonian Magazine
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  • Diya Eggleston placed four stones -- with the names of the children she was not able to carry to term -- under a tree at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.<br />
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Eggleston, who lost a pregnancy four times in the course of one year, is now 18-weeks pregnant. "After losing 4 babies I have given up control. I have accepted my hand. All I can do now is hope," she said.<br />
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For the New York Times 'You know someone who’s had a miscarriage.' https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/10/opinion/miscarriage-pregnancy.html
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