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An early morning airstrike on July 3 killed at least 53 people at a migrant detention center near Tripoli only two months after the U.N.’s refugee agency had warned that detainees were at risk at...

One of my favorite memories of working at Tunnel Bar in New York City in 1991 is when a striking Black queen walked in off the street and shook my hand as if I owned...

John Shearer captured on camera iconic American moments ranging from John-John's salute of John F. Kennedy's casket to Muhammad Ali's 1971 fight with Joe Frazier. But his favorite project, according to his wife Marianne, was...

It is, as it were, the visible image of the universe. —Percy Bysshe Shelley Everyone knows that Rome is the eternal city, the passage of time palpable at every turn within its decaying walls and...

Timing makes history. If the police raid on the Stonewall Inn had happened earlier, it probably would have been instantly forgotten, like so many other attacks on surreptitious gay meeting places. The febrile feeling on...

Dignity, celebration, respect, joy. These were just some of the feelings photographer Robbie Lawrence wanted to capture in his work from Sierra Leone — a departure from the emotions we might traditionally associate with photography...