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Okuaizu, Fukushima

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Black and White Photographs Capture the Striking Appearance of Bare Trees Against Snow-Filled Landscapes

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A ‘Forgotten History’ Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America

In 1933, faced with a housing shortage, the federal government began a program explicitly designed to increase — and segregate — America’s housing stock. Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a “state-sponsored system of segregation.”

The government’s efforts were “primarily designed to provide housing to white, middle-class, lower-middle-class families,” he says. African-Americans and other people of color were left out of the new suburban communities — and pushed instead into urban housing projects.

Rothstein’s new book, The Color of Law, examines the local, state and federal housing policies that mandated segregation. He notes that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), which was established in 1934, furthered the segregation efforts by refusing to insure mortgages in and near African-American neighborhoods — a policy known as “redlining.” At the same time, the FHA was subsidizing builders who were mass producing entire white subdivisions — with the requirement that none of the homes be sold to African-Americans.

Rothstein says that these decades-old housing policies have had a lasting effect on American society. “The segregation of our metropolitan areas today leads … to stagnant inequality, because families are much less able to be upwardly mobile when they’re living in segregated neighborhoods where opportunity is absent,” he says. “If we want greater equality in this society, if we want a lowering of the hostility between police and young African-American men, we need to take steps to desegregate.”

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Winners and Honorable Mentions of the 2018 National Geographic Photography Competition

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The Life and Works of Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Supersized New Book From TASCHEN

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Traditional and Contemporary Japanese Culture Collides in Striking Photographs by RK

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Illustrations Transform Nike Air Maxes Into Concepts That Pay Homage to Their History

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The photographer Keith Carter is interested in the everyday figures—idle kids, blue-collar workers, animals both domesticated and less so—that contribute to Texas’s mythology. His monograph “From Uncertain to Blue” features one image from each of a hundred small towns across Texas, from Ding Dong to Smiley to Nada. Carter pays ode to Texas with rich, allegorical images.

Read the full piece, “A Photographer’s Loving Ode to Small-Town Texas,” here.