Bob CollinsPhotographer Arthur Nazaryan documents life in this photo essay. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: 1000 Words
The next time you read or hear a story on the state of the news media, think of this picture. It’s a far, far more accurate accounting of it than any research could reveal. Read more →
I’m fresh out of words for mass murder and yet a blog about the news should say something about the news of the day.
So here’s a picture. Read more →
This is the day of the year when the president pardons a turkey at the White House and for seven years, Malia and Sasha Obama have been good soldiers for the photo-op. Today was no different. They stood by their father’s side for the cause of tradition on the day we realized — again –that time moves on, and little kids grow up too fast.
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Undeterred by the warnings from officials that attacks in the city may not be over, the people of Paris lined up to donate blood to victims of Friday’s terrorism. Read more →
The mass migration of people trying to flee war has one constant: the children. Always the children. Read more →
Ray and Ellie Williams, Navy veterans who married the day after V-J Day, kicked off the anniversary of the famous kiss, captured by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt in Times Square on August 14, 1945. No, they weren’t the actual people photographed in the original, but they represented the “Greatest Generation” at today’s moment. Who the original Read more →
This is even a bigger week than normal in Sturgis, where the annual motorcycle rally is underway. It’s the 75th anniversary of the first event in the South Dakota city. Read more →
This picture of an African-American officer in South Carolina helping a white supremacist at a rally for the Confederate flag a couple of weeks ago had all kinds of symbolism to it. Read more →
The White House is anything but. Read more →
There was no talk of mercy nor forgiveness when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death today for the Boston Marathon bombing. Read more →
Memphis said goodbye to blues legend B.B. King this afternoon with a processional down Beale Street. Read more →
Paul Tosto
Military reunions don’t always involve humans. Read more →
Images that aren’t likely to be on the front page of newspapers and websites when telling the story of what’s happening in Baltimore.
We could stare for hours at the faces in Pioneer Press reporter Fred Melo’s tweet/photo from Mayor Chris Coleman’s State of the City speech last night.
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