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  • Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Attorney Ben Cohen with the Promise of Justice Initiative poses for a photo in a legal library in New Orleans, La., Wednesday, March 28, 2018. Cohen works to reform Louisiana's criminal justice system and worked to change a discriminatory conviction system, including a Jim Crow-era law, that enabled Louisiana courts to send defendants to jail without jury consensus on the accused’s guilt.
  • Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Calvin Duncan poses for a photo with two stacks of legal paperwork filed under {quote}Notification of Direct Appeal Decision{quote} and Non-unanimous Jury Verdict issues{quote} in his Central Business District office in New Orleans, La., Friday, Feb. 23, 2018. Duncan is a former Angola inmate who is pushing the United States Supreme Court, through repeated petitions on behalf of inmates convicted on non-unanimous jury counts, to overturn the state's unusual law allowing murder convictions of a 10 to 2 jury serious felony cases.
  • Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Defense attorney David Belfield stands for a portrait in front of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in New Orleans, La., Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Belfield says he would be much more willing to take cases to trial if the jury verdicts had to be unanimous.
  • Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Wilfred Moliere, 68, is pictured in his home in front of a painting depicting a scene of the Underground Railroad in Marrero, La., Friday, April 20, 2018. Moliere was a holdout juror in the 1998 trial of Travis Hayes, which ended in a 10-2 vote. Hayes' murder conviction was later overturned.
  • Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Leon Miller, the head of the Louisiana Research Collection, sits behind a copy of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana is photographed at the in New Orleans, La., Tuesday, March 27, 2018.
  • Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Orleans Parish Criminal District Judge Paul Bonin is pictured in his chambers in New Orleans, La., Friday, April 20, 2018. Judge Bonin presided over one of the first 10-2 convictions challenged to a mistrial after the U.S. Supreme Court decided to reconsider nearly a half-century of precedent allowing split-jury verdicts.
  • Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Attorney Timothy Meche poses for a photo in the library of his law office in New Orleans, La., Friday, April 20, 2018. Meche has his hand on an amicus brief he filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008 on behalf of the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, highlighting the racist origins of the state's non-unanimous verdict law.
  • BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards prays in the House Chambers before addressing a Joint Legislative Session in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, March 14, 2016. Today marks the opening of the regular Louisiana legislative session after a special three-week session on budget issues concluded last week.(AP Photo/Max Becherer)
  • New Orleans African American Museum Executive Director Gia Hamilton stands for a portrait in New Orleans, La. Wednesday, April 3, 2019.
  • KENNER, LOUISIANA. Cari Rhoton, a lieutenant in an all-female Mardi Gras parade group known as the Krewe of Muses, creates the group's signature shoes from her garage in Kenner, La., Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016. Over 1000 members of the organization ride floats and pass out hand decorated shoes and other trinkets during Mardi Gras. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
  • Sharon Gautreaux hugs Leonora Barnett, who Gautreaux had as her second grade teacher, as Barnett celebrates her 102nd birthday at Covenant Nursing Home in New Orleans, La. Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019. On her birthday Barnett was honored by NOLA Public Schools Superintendent of Schools Dr. Henderson Lewis Jr. as well as city and state officials for a life dedicated to public education. Barnett taught at McDonogh 24 for over 40 years.
  • Kevin Bourgeois sits with his Norwich Terrier, Pippa, with a framed poster, from the papal visit of Pope John Paul II to New Orleans from 1987, seen behind him at his home in New Orleans, La. Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019.
  • ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN. Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, stands for a photo at the Prime Minister’s residence in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday August 15, 2013. Prime Minister Sharif is starting his third term as the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. His last term as Prime Minister came to an abrupt end when General Pervez Musharraf led a military coup against him in 1999.
  • BAGHDAD, IRAQ. Mohammad Raheem embraces his daughter and is momentarily relieved of the pain as he retells his experience in that very room four years ago to the day on Haifa Street in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday September 12, 2008. In 2004, a massive explosion shattered the windows of his home sending shards of glass flying through the room where he slept on the floor with his wife and three children between them. Mohammad’s face was cut by glass and so were the legs of his small daughter. The explosion was a car bomb targeting an American patrol, wounding soldiers in an U.S. tank and wounding Mohammad’s family. The improvement of security in Iraq during 2008 and the passing of time is slow to remove the emotional scars left after the burning tank was pulled away, the dead buried and the windows repaired.
  • GAZA STRIP. Hafez Abbas, 9, stands in a destroyed building in the Beit Hanun neighborhood of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Hafez Abbas, age 9 - Beit Hanun, Gaza Strip. “We had a very beautiful garden but it was totally demolished, I swear it was very beautiful. The IDF (Israeli Defense Force) called us so many times telling us to leave our house. We refused to evacuate the house but finally we had to leave and they totally destroyed it. We relocated to a UN school but it was bad. We had no water to drink. I am just now coming from my uncle’s house that was demolished by the IDF. I went to get some of my things from under the rubble but we found nothing, even the door disappeared.”
  • SDEROT, ISRAEL. Omri Dinur, 12, stands for a portrait at the Alon Madaim Elementary school in Sderot, Israel on Thursday, October 23, 2014. Dinur stands in front of a mural decorated bomb shelter in the playground of the school.Omri Dinur, age 12 - Sderot, Israel “Part of the time I was at home (this summer) but I also went to Eilat with my family. When I was at home I played with my friends but we did not go out like we usually do, we played inside the house. A Qassam rocket fell near my house and it was very scared. I was with my little brother and he cried, so I gave him a hug. Things are much better now that its over and we can go outside.”
  • MARINA DEL RAY, CALIFORNIA. Chris Sipe lives in a beach front apartment and spends as much time as he can with his girlfriend Julie Passino. Sipe deployed to Iraq three times with the 3rd Battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment, including the battle for Fallujah in November 2004. After his third deployment Sipe risked having his relationship with Julie fall apart. Sipe decided to leave the Marines and picked up a job with a Los Angles personal security company that provides security to Hollywood stars. Sipe joined the Marines after attending college and has found a life for himself after the Marines with the help of Julie and his job. Not a day goes by that Sipe does not think about the war, and he often thinks of returning to active duty. “I've been getting the itch on more than one occasion to maybe get back in the game. I feel like I've taken a 6-month break, and it is time to deploy again. Some days are better than others, you know? I'm enjoying civilian life as much as one can. But I still have Marine blood running through my veins,” says Sipe.
  • DENVER, COLORADO. Fred Lambert sits on his mattress on the floor of his downtown Denver apartment and holds a semi-automatic AK-47 he purchased in Denver as protection for himself in the drug and crime riddled apartment complex he lives in. Lambert shares the apartment with a Marine from his former unit, the 3rd Battalion of the 5th Marines. After failing a drug test and forfeiting his military tuition stipend, Lambert was given a general discharge. Lambert, a Florida native, joined the Marines looking for a way to better himself. Although he is a talented artist he wanted a way to attend college. Lambert was one of the first Marines over the border of Kuwait to Iraq when the Iraq war began in 2003. The next year he was deployed to Fallujah where he was in close quarters combat while fighting to take over that city in November 2004. Lambert earned several awards for his valor during his two deployments but turned to drugs to deal with the stress of combat and the death of fellow Marines. After given a less than honorable discharge from the military, Lambert drove his Corvette to Denver where he joined fellow Marines who were kicked out of the service because of drug use.
  • Baluchistan Province, Pakistan. The welders and laborers who dismantle aged cargo and tanker ships work long days and brave the dangerous work for around two dollars a day at the Gaddani Beach ship breaking yards in Baluchistan Province, Pakistan on Tuesday, February 26, 2008. Most workers come from the Northwest Frontier province and Baluchistan where unemployment is high and fundamentalism has flourished.
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