To the Community
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How much poison can our democracy withstand?
I was 10 in the fall of 1962 when the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers tied for the…
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Trust is essential to strengthening communities.
In the U.S. and internationally, a set of mostly small, community-based groups is quietly undertaking new approaches to philanthropy that…
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Not thinking about race is a luxury I don’t have.
I’m at least as much a journalist as I am an artist. Most folks would say I’m more of the…
Photography Feature
About the Photographer
Brian Palmer (b. 1964, Queens, NY) is a photographer and award-winning journalist based in Richmond, Virginia. He strives to tell stories that might not otherwise be told—stories of conflict, activism, and daily life. His multimedia approach unites narratives and images, bridging the two to unite comprehensive storytelling and thorough investigation.
Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, OH—Headstones for United States Civil War veterans, including United States Colored Troops (USCT), United States Colored Infantry (USCI), United States Colored Heavy Artillery (USCHA), as well as Ohioans and others.
Cleveland, OH—Early voting at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections; Shooting Without Bullets wheat pastes posters of the late Stephanie Tubbs Jones, former U.S. Representative (11th Congressional District)—“also the first black woman to become a judge of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, as well as the county’s first black prosecutor”—on the outside walls of the ACLU Ohio.
2020 Grants
$20,349,812 / 153 Grants