The movement for better pay for teachers that ignited in West Virginia, where thousands of teachers went on strike, and has swept through states like Oklahoma and Arizona, reached North Carolina on Wednesday. Wearing “red 4 ed” T-shirts, an estimated 20,000 teachers and public education supporters filled the streets of Raleigh and marched to the […]
Jenny Warburg
Jenny Warburg is a freelance photographer and former social worker living in Durham, North Carolina. Her photographs have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, The Los Angeles Times, People, Rolling Stone, US Weekly, Mother Jones, The Washington Post, Ms.,The Guardian, and the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report. Her photos have also appeared in numerous books and on book covers, as well as in many documentary films, television documentaries and news programs.
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Photos from the Moral March on Raleigh
Thousands in North Carolina protested both state policy and the Trump administration.
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Photo Essay: Anti-Trump Protesters and Immigrant Advocates Demonstrate in New York
Trump Tower became a magnet for those protesting the election of Donald Trump.
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Photo Essay: Vigil for Slain Chapel Hill Muslim Students
While the media lit up with arguments over whether or not Craig Hicks’s execution-style killing of three young Arabs was a hate crime, the UNC community gathered to commemorate the lives of the slain.
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Photo Essay: Moral Mondays’ Potent Symbols and Creative Actions
So far in the 2014 North Carolina legislative session, lawmakers have witnessed weekly actions: a silent protest, a sit-in in the Speaker’s office, and prayerful bread-breaking by the activists of the Moral Monday movement, chronicled here in a photo
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Meet the Doctor Who Went to Jail to Save North Carolina Lives
There is right, and there is wrong. And having to watch patients die because legislators refused the administration’s Medicaid expansion—that’s just wrong, says physician Charlie van der Horst.
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Charting a Moral Monday, from the Capitol to the Prison Bus
Snapshots from the weekly protests at the North Carolina state house