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PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW LICHTENSTEIN, CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES

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Police, neighbors, and fans wait and watch as the funeral caravan for Notorious B.I.G., passes through the Brooklyn neighborhood of Clinton Hill. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein.

[walrusmagazine]

The Search for Mackie Basil

Seven years ago, a young Indigenous woman from Tache, BC, went to a party and never came back. Her family won't stop looking for her

One late afternoon, as the sun crept behind the trees, Peter and his cousin Ron Winser took us for a boat ride on the still, placid lake. When I asked how Mackie’s disappearance has impacted the community, Winser told me people were in “dire shock.” Mackie comes from a society that looks after its people, its families, its members. “We’ve always found our people,” he said. “So to have someone go missing down one of our logging roads, where there was a number of people, where she should have never gone missing, to have no evidence of her, and it’s six years later? . . . It’s a major hurt to our people.”

Read more at thewalrus.ca.

Photography by Andrew Lichtenstein (lichtensteinphoto.com).

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Reagan’s Court, Bush’s Sport Abortion, Flag Burning and You

The abortion-restricting ruling of the U,S. Supreme Court in the case of [Webster] v. Reproductive Health Services is one of the most obvious legacies of the presidency of Ronald Reagan. This decision — following on the heels of rulings limiting affirmative action and other protections for women and minorities — points directly to the influence of the Reagan Justices on the laws of the nation.

That influence is being felt most directly by gay men and lesbians, women and people of color. The Court has placed very severe limits on abortion access with this ruling, just as it placed the responsibility for proving discrimination on those being discriminated against.

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By appointing relatively young, ultra-conservative justices to the Supreme Court, Reagan insured that his conservative agenda will be perpetuated long after his presidency. [...]

While Reagan used the High Court to further his agenda, Bush may turn to the congressional mandate. Angered by the Court's ruling that flag-burning was a valid form of dissent, Bush began his campaign for a constitutional amendment banning the desecration of the American flag. Two weeks after the flag ruling, Bush reiterated his support for a constitutional amendment banning abortion.

Bush has received strong bipartisan support for his flag-protection initiative, and legislators nationwide have aligned with him on the abortion issue as well. And though polls show that over 75 percent of Americans approve of abortion under some circumstance, a majority of legislators are anti-abortion rights.

The impact of Supreme Court decisions is felt for years beyond the decision itself. The legacy of the liberal Court of Earl Warren changed the shape of American politics and civil rights in the 1960s and 70s. The Reagan Court has moved to overturn some of those decisions, and to rescind a vast majority of civil liberties, reversing the gains made by minorities and women in the last 25 years.

But as threatening as the conservative wave of the Court may be, the impact of constitutional manipulation is far more destructive, because of its permanence.

Once adopted, a constitutional amendment can only be rescinded by another constitutional amendment[.] This has only happened once in this century, in the case of Prohibition.

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There is little doubt Bush will get his flag amendment adopted. If it passes, it will be the first time since Prohibition that Americans lose a right they previously had.

— Victoria A. Brownworth, OutWeek Magazine No. 6, July 31, 1989, p. 24.

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'War Is Only Half the Story' — 10 years of the Aftermath Project

"War Is Only Half the Story" (Dewi Lewis Publishing) is a 10-year retrospective of the work of the groundbreaking documentary photography program the Aftermath Project, founded by Sara Terry in 2008 to support postconflict storytelling by some of the world's finest photographers. To mark its 10th anniversary, the Aftermath Project has published a special volume (the ninth in its acclaimed book program) featuring the work of more than 50 photographers from 15 countries who were winners and finalists in its yearly grant competition from 2008 to 2016.

These outstanding photojournalists, among them Juan Arredondo, Nina Berman, Andrea Bruce, Gwenn Dubourthoumieu, Jim Goldberg, Natela Grigalashvili, Stanley Greene, Jessica Hines, Olga Ingurazova, Andrew Lichtenstein, Carlos Justyna Mielnikiewicz,David  Monteleone, Javier Oritz, Louie Palu, Andrew Stanbridge, Simon Brann Thorpe and Danny Wilcox Frazier, are committed to telling the other half of the story of conflict — what it takes for individuals to learn to live again, to rebuild destroyed lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering wounds of war while struggling to create new avenues for peace.

Terry writes about the anniversary book's unique concept: "We decided on a fresh approach to the conversation. Instead of a chronological overview of the decade of work that we have supported, designer Teun van der Heijden and I drew on two poems by Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska. ... Using her postconflict verbal imagery, we created five themes for the book, and then edited from across our rich archives of 53 grant winners and finalists. With Szymborska's words to guide us ... we let the images speak to each other. ... I believe we've created a dialogue that's never been heard before, a postconflict visual symphony, one that invites you to listen over and over again."

"War Is Only Half the Story" includes an introduction by Terry, two poems by Szymborska — "The End and the Beginning" and "Reality Demands" — and insightful texts by photographer Donald Weber and American literary critic and translator Clare Cavanagh that provide further context for the project.

Photography by Natela Grigalashvili, Olga Ingurazova, Danny Wilcox Frazier, Nina Berman, Stanley Greene, Juan Arredondo, Louie Palu, Simon Brann Thorpe, Gwenn Dubourthoumieu, Andrew Lichtenstein from "War Is Only Half The Story," The Aftermath Project & Dewi Lewis Publishing

"War Is Only Half the Story," released by The Aftermath Project & Dewi Lewis Publishing, will be available Feb. 19.

See more photos of 'War Is Only Half the Story' and our other slideshows on Yahoo News.

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Photographer Andrew Lichtenstein works on long-term stories of social concern. Tomorrow evening at the #ICPSchool, he'll be discussing his expansive career as a journalist, educator, and socially concerned photographer, as well as the recent release of his new book, "Marked, Unmarked, Remembered." RSVP: http://bit.ly/2x2jtEE

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[lostinurbanism]

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.  

Room 306: The Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee (1995)

Photograph by Andrew Lichtenstein