Texas Town's Fortunes Rise And Fall With Pump Jacks And Oil Prices
Out on the wide open plains of West Texas, you can see the horizon for 360 degrees, interrupted only by the nodding up and down of pump jacks pulling oil up out of the earth.There lies the aptly named...
View ArticleAfter Louisiana Floods, A Photographer Finds Resilience
In Baton Rouge, La., people are using whatever tools they have to help their community recover from the flood.That includes cameras.Four photographers have been creating portraits of those affected....
View ArticleFor The Black Middle Class, Housing Crisis And History Collude To Dash Dreams
Evelyn and Grattan Betancourt bought their "forever" home in 1986. It's two-stories tall, with a brick front and a wide lawn. Some evenings, deer come out of the woods and linger in their yard."This...
View ArticleHow An Architect Used Striking Design To Capture New Smithsonian's Meaning
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit CORNISH, HOST: For months I have been watching as a fantastic new building has risen on the National Mall here in Washington. The long awaited Smithsonian Museum...
View ArticleMission Of African-American Museum Writ Large In Its Very Design
The building rises — bronze and "brooding," in the words of architect David Adjaye — floating in a sea of white marble and limestone on the sprawling National Mall in Washington, D.C.The mission of the...
View Article'Atlas Obscura' Tour Of Manhattan Finds Hidden Wonders In A Well-Trodden Place
Sometimes the world can feel a bit uniform: the same department stores in every shopping mall, the same fast food chains on every corner. The website Atlas Obscura will make you reconsider that sense...
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