October 4, 2019, Hong Kong, China: Wearing face masks, pro-democracy protesters gathered throughout Hong Kong to express their opposition to a new anti face covering law annoucned by Chief Executive Lam. Tha law, which took effect at midnight would make wearing any sort of face covering mask during a protest an offense punishable by a jail term and fine. Thousands of protesters marched throughout Hong Kong Island and several businesses were firebombed.

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Navy SEAL acquitted on murder charges

July 2, 2019, San Diego, CA: U.S. Navy SEAL Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher celebrates with wife Andrea Gallagher, as he leaves court after being acquitted on most of the serious charges against him from his court-martial trial at Naval Base San Diego.

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October 24, 2014 – Spearville, Kansas: The 5,000 acre Kansas City Power & Light Spearville Wind Energy Facility became the the third wind farm in Kansas. The $160 million dollar, 100.5 megawatt wind farm has 67 turbines which produce enough electricity to power 33,000 homes. The GE Energy 1.5 megawatt wind turbines are mounted on 80 meter towers and feed an underground electrical collection system. The turbines at the Spearville Wind Farm are designed to turn on when the wind speed reaches 8 mph, at which point the blades will rotate about 10 times per minute.The Spearville Wind Energy Facility is the first large scale wind facility in Kansas to be owned and operated by a regulated electric utility.

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December 8, Atlanta, Georgia, USA: ZOZIBINI TUNZI, Miss South Africa 2019 is crowned Miss Universe at the conclusion of at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta. The new winner will move to New York City where she will live during her reign and become a spokesperson for various causes alongside The Miss Universe Organization.

Photo Credit © Miss Universe Organization via ZUMA Press

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Dakota Indian horseback riders and support teams gather each year in South Dakota for an annual 325 mile memorial journey to southern Minnesota. Their ride will end in Mankato on Dec. 26, the 150th anniversary of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. On that day in 1862, 38 Dakota men were hanged from a single gallows platform in downtown Mankato in retribution for the US-Dakota war. The horseback ride will grow as it moves east, with more groups joining in. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging and later, two chief’s following their uprising against the U.S. government after the U.S. failed to honor land treaties, delayed federal payments to starving tribes and local white settlers rejected tribes’ offers to buy food on credit. After the war, the Dakotas were expelled to South Dakota and Nebraska, and their reservations in Minnesota abolished. Jim Miller, a Vietnam veteran and descendant of the Dakotas, started the ride in 2005, to bring the Dakota people together. The ride is to raise awareness to the significance impact of the mass hanging, and to bring reconciliation among all people of the region so that they may move forward in a positive way and experience the beauty in the history and their culture.

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The 2018 Yunghi Grant

Lafi, 63, (no last name is given) tries to calm his grandson Yousef, 2, as he and his family joined other Internally Displaced People fleeing ISIS from Mosul as Iraqi Security Forces move to clear the city of the terror network, at Khazir Camp in Kurdistan Region.

The 2016 Yunghi Grant

“Hers was the first hand that held mine. Mine was the last to hold hers. Saying farewell to my mother Julia.”

“Stefanus Fotu Bataona (47), a Lamafa (whale harpooner), relaxes with his family in front of his house in Lembata island, Indonesia.
Lamalera is a small fishing village of 2,000 people in the east part of Indonesia where whaling has been an integral part of their life since 600 years ago, using wooden small boats, and hand-thrown bamboo harpoons to hunt.”

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December 25, 2018, Tijuana, Mexico: A group of Central American migrants hide on Mexican side of Mexico/US border wall, try not to be spotted by US border patrols and wait to find a good timing to jump the border fence. About an hour later they found a water pipe which leads to the US side of the wall also big enough for a person to crawl through. Soon after few of them reach to the US side, they were apprehended by US border patrols. Most of them had to crawled back to the Mexican side. The water pipe was then fenced and blocked on the next day.

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American Supreme Court 1999 Olmstead ruling changed the landscape for millions of disabled Americans – but some still wait. Promises Kept, Promises Unfulfilled by award winning ZUMA Press photojournalist Robin Rayne is an in-depth case study on how 20 years later this important law has helped many but due to bureaucracy many more are still without help the law promises and should ensure. Maurice Smith, 37, has been locked up in the forensic unit of East Central Regional Hospital in Augusta, Ga for more than a decade, but was never charged with a crime. Smith asks to asks anyone who will listen the question uppermost in his mind for the last 11 years: ”When am I getting out of here? Teresia Blackshear comforts her son Mikaiah Epps, 20, who lives in a temporary crisis home because of his intellectual disability and mental illness. ‘He can’t live at home because my husband fights with him,’ she said during a visit. Mikaiah spent one year in a county jail because no other facility was available, she said. He awaits a Medicaid waiver that would provide better supports, but there are more than 6,000 other Georgia residents also in the waiting list. Whenever family was at stake, Nafeesah Shaheed was a fierce and tireless fighter. Until a medical accident catastrophically starved her brain of oxygen, leaving her bedridden and no longer able to speak, the social worker with advanced degrees from Columbia University and Hunter College in New York devoted her life to rescuing and reuniting troubled families. She was wherever families were at risk. Her husband and her eight children resolved to bring her home. They succeeded with the help of lawyers at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society and a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that Legal Aid originated. October 2020 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Olmstead case, this epic U.S. Supreme Court decision solidified the rights established in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that individuals with disabilities have the right to live their lives in the community and in the most integrated setting possible.

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Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & CEO, ZUMA Press

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & CEO, ZUMA Press