Life after Michael Brown and Freddie Gray: A visual exploration

Now that the cameras have left Baltimore and Ferguson, we asked two photographers to document their cities

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U.S.
Flashpoint Ferguson

From Carburetors to Curling Irons

The secret automotive history of Detroit's Hair Wars

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Economy
Auto Industry
Low-wage Workers

For black men, a permanent recession

Follow five job seekers as they look for employment in a market that is stacked against them

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Economy
Race & Ethnicity
Jobs & Unemployment

The white tourist’s burden

Growing Western demand for altruistic vacations is feeding the white-savior industrial complex

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Travel and Tourism
Africa
Indonesia

Sandra Bland, Samuel DuBose and the rise of ‘vehicular stop and frisk’

Racially based stops for minor traffic violations on the rise because of court action and police practice, say activists

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Police
Race & Ethnicity
U.S.

Baltimore: The divided city where Freddie Gray lived and died

How racial disparities in employment, housing and education contextualize Baltimore's unrest

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U.S.
Race & Ethnicity
Economy

In W.Va., fortunes of black minority fall along with coal

For many African-Americans, mining once promised a path to the middle class. Its collapse leaves workers without options

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U.S.
Environment
Economy

Selma’s missing postscript

Oscar-nominated movie about MLK and passage of ’65 Voting Rights Act skips chance to remind viewers where we are today

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Civil Rights
Race & Ethnicity
The Oscars

Living Las Vegas: Sun Belt cities offer new take on race

Younger locales in the South and West have lower segregation levels in residential communities

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Race & Ethnicity
Las Vegas
Nevada

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