Tenecia Phillips is the director of Kindred, a program running out of the Pima County Library system that aims to retain Black staff members and curate books centering Black characters.
Tom Bridge, 82, is the parish administrator of Trinity Episcopal Church in Vincentown, New Jersey. Flooding this summer caused extensive damage to the church hall, where a pile of soggy insulation remained weeks later.
For the last two decades, many works of art belonging to the Yale University Art Gallery have been housed and cared for at Yale’s Library Shelving Facility in Hamden, Connecticut, a few miles from campus. Now curators are preparing and inspecting more than 18,000 objects that are being relocated from the Hamden facility to the Collection Studies Center on Yale’s West Campus.
David Ramey, 65, lost his home of 30 years in Paradise, California, to the Camp Fire in 2018. He was living in a trailer in Chico, accompanied by his pet cockatiel, also named Chico because Ramey rescued him from a Chico parking lot 14 years ago.
Paul McNamara’s cattle roam on his piece of “paradise” outside of Washington Boro, Pennsylvania.
Vic Barrick is a Pennsylvania dairy farmer whose fields were severely flooded, damaging much of his cattle feed in summer of 2019.
Wearing a shirt that says ‘Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor,’ a protestor raises her fist at a peaceful vigil to remember the lives of Taylor and Dion Johnson, a Black man shot by police in May 2018.
Alina and Emeric Paskett brought their lantern and candle to a vigil after the Breonna Taylor verdict. Their father, Spencer, thought it was important to attend after his outrage that no criminal charges were filed relating to her death.
Organizers for Black Lives Matter Phoenix Metro lead a grounding meditation prior to a march demanding justice for the killing of Breonna Taylor and Dion Johnson. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front of city hall before walking to the Phoenix Police Department headquarters to demand police accountability.
Carrie Gates of Platteville, Wisconsin, got a tattoo of a woman facing a tornado after a twister sucked her from her second-story apartment in 2014.
These kittens were dubbed the “fire cats” after their owner delivered them in a tent following the Camp Fire in Paradise, California.
Dexter and his owner Carrie Gates survived a 2014 tornado in Platteville, Wisconsin and both suffer from PTSD.
A demonstrator silently prays in front of city hall before marching to the Phoenix Police Department headquarters to demand police accountability after no criminal charges were filed in direct relation to Breonna Taylor’s death.
Yale printing press
Professor Jing Tsu
Ottoman manuscripts at the Beinecke
Military promotion ceremony
A young girl shoots hoops at the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Phoenix.
Wu Tsai visiting artist
Yale Farm
Yale Farm
Tyler Rohrer, owner of the Tomato Barn in Washington Boro, Pennsylvania, lost some fields to flooding in 2018, but he said the impact continued into this year. “I’ve been told by grandparents and parents that they’ve never seen a year like it, so I take their word for it.”
Wesley Tate planned on starting a hemp business and opening a roadside market until an unexpected storm with 100 mph winds knocked down several trees across his property. He has begun planting hundreds of new plants, but he said, “There’s only so much you can do.”