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South Florida’s First Black Neighborhood Is Struggling (PHOTOS)

MIAMI (AP) – When the first black residents of South Florida arrived in the 1880s from the Bahamas to work at the Peacock Inn on Biscayne Bay, they established the Village West neighborhood in Miami’s Coconut Grove section.

The neighborhood thrived in the early 1900s with many black-owned businesses and single-family homes. But after World War II ended, many of the homes were torn down and replaced with large apartment buildings. Today, many of those apartment buildings are in disrepair and the residents are struggling. There are many vacant lots, boarded up homes, empty storefronts along the main thoroughfare of Grand Avenue and numerous properties for sale, slated for development.

Here is a look at the neighborhood, and some of its residents, through photos:  [Continue reading article and view addition photos.]

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A Portrait of Russia’s Outermost Regions

“Less Than One” is a portrait of Russia’s outermost regions. The project was shot between 2006 and 2008 in areas with a population density of less than one person per square kilometer.

Moscow-based photographer Alexander Gronsky was born in 1980 in Tallinn, Estonia. In 1998, he began working as a professional photographer. His work has since been published in Esquire Russia,National Geographic, Ojode Pez, Art+Auction, Condé Nast Traveller, and FOAMMagazine. In 2009, he won the Linhof Young Photographer Award, the Aperture Portfolio Prize, and was in the Critical Mass Top 50.

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”Girls”, Portraits by Luo Yang

In her series Girls, Beijing-based photographer Luo Yang reveals a side to contemporary China that is rarely seen in the West. Defying stereotypes, Yang’s subjects depict bold, self-aware Chinese women of an emerging generation instead of appearing simply timid and shy. 

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