Year in Photos- 2015 (10 images)

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  • July 13, 2015. Winston Salem, North Carolina.<br /> Sunita Pillay, center, traveled from Asheville to show her support for the NC NAACP's lawsuit against Gov. Pat McCrory.<br /> To rally support for the North Carolina NAACP's case against Gov. Pat McCrory (NC NAACP v. McCrory), a march was held in downtown Winston Salem on the opening day of the case in federal court. Thousands gathered to walk the streets of downtown and listen to speeches proclaiming the importance of defeating new requirements for voter registration,<br /> The NC NAACP contests that HB 589 (Voter ID requirements) violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (42 U.S.C. 1973) and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the Constitution.

  • Hillsborough, North Carolina - August 8, 2015 - Orange County Taking Back Orange County rally attendees and protestors take sides Saturday August 8, 2015 near the Hillsborough Town Hall complex in Hillsborough, North Carolina. The rally, which was prompted by the potential removal of the word "Confederate" from the Orange County Historical Museum, remained peaceful.

  • Leilah Nichols, 8, holds a sign that reads "Treat Prisoners FairlyÖThe Children Are Watching" outside the Durham County Jail while attending a protest with her mother, Nadiah Porter, Friday, May 1, 2015. The demonstators were protesting in solidarity with protestors in Baltimore.

  • May 2, 2015. Stokesdale, North Carolina.<br /> Scotty Irving, the lone member of Clang Quartet, has been playing Christian noise music since 1997. Irving designs and builds a series of masks and other wearable instruments with sound pedals and microphones imbedded into the repurposed science fiction and monster toys that he has deconstructed for the needs of his art. His 20 to 30 minute show is a statement on his sins and his journey past them on the way to finding Jesus.

  • April 27, 2015. Raleigh, North Carolina.<br /> Tiny Town, an affordable housing development built after World War II for returning veterans, will soon be torn down to make way for a larger, more modern series of houses.

  • Raleigh, North Carolina - Saturday September 26, 2015 - Corin Anderson, 37, of Clayton, NC, got a tattoo of a cat from MJ at Warlock's Tattoo in Raleigh, NC during Ray Price's Bike Fest Saturday September 26, 2015 where Warlock's Tattoo had a booth. It was in honor of her cat, Harley, a siamese that she had to leave in Canada when she moved here. "He only loved me," said Anderson. After two years of searching, Anderson found a home for Harley in Canada.

  • Eastway Elementary School student Markel Dixon, 8, is one of a group of students who have grown peas and radishes in a garden at the school from seeds that came from the seed library found in the Durham Public Library downtown location.

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  • October 18, 2015. Hillsborough, North Carolina.<br /> Heidi Perreault runs Sunrise Oak Farm with her husband Tom Rajala and 16 mo. old daughter Lily.<br /> North Carolina officials recently issued an order mandating all backyard chicken owners register their birds with the state, in order—ostensibly—to protect the state’s poultry operation from a potential bird flu outbreak.

  • A Wood Thrush caught in a mist net, which do not harm the birds. The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center and Forsyth Audubon collaborated on the The NC Wood Thrush Recapture program to catch, band and release Wood Thrushes and search for birds tagged with a GPS tracker at Pilot Mountain in Pinnacle, N.C. on Sunday, June 7, 2015. (Justin Cook/ The National Audubon Society)