Law enforcement officers and National Guard members surveil a peaceful protest from the roof of the State Capitol building in Raleigh, N.C. on June 1, 2020.
UNC fans celebrate a historic Final Four win against Duke in Chapel Hill, N.C. on April 2, 2022.
A single car drives through what is normally a packed traffic circle in Raleigh, N.C. before the start of a stay-at-home order on March 27, 2020.
Dr. Stephanie Luster-Teasley at North Carolina A&T's Engineering Research and Innovation Complex in Greensboro.
Kody Kinsley, secretary of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, in his Raleigh office.
Pastor Chris Fitzgerald, who holds a traditionalist view on how the United Methodist Church treats sexuality, prepares to teach a Sunday school class at Wesley Memorial UMC. in Statesville, N.C. in July 2022.
Kinston High School varsity basketball players and coaches recite the Lord’s Prayer together before a game against Wallace-Rose Hill in Kinston, N.C. on Jan. 11, 2022.
Steve Wagner, left, Ryan Teeter, middle, and other armed men gather in Raleigh, N.C. on May 1, 2020 to protest pandemic restrictions.
A Waffle House in Durham, N.C., is closed to in-person service on March 24, 2020.
A National Guard member enters a mobile COVID-19 treatment clinic in Smithfield, N.C. on Sept. 15, 2021.
Claire Curzan, 17, of Cary, N.C., practices at the Triangle Aquatic Center on June 24, 2021. Curzan was one of the youngest athletes to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
A picture of Syncere Burrell, who was shot and killed in Durham, N.C. on August 10, 2020, can be seen in a necklace on his mother, Lavern Lucier, pictured here on November 9, 2020.
Ashely Scales in Summerfield, N.C. Scales spoke at a heated Town Council meeting in favor of a zoning code amendment that would allow for apartments to be built in the largely white, single-family home community outside of Greensboro.
Head UNC basketball coach Hubert Davis is seen listening to a reporter’s question through the viewfinder of a video camera during a press conference on March 29, 2022.
A quiet scene behind Open Eye Cafe in Carrboro, N.C. after a winter storm in 2018.
Chimney swifts fly over the post office in downtown Chapel Hill, N.C. before roosting for the night on Sept. 14, 2020.
Southeast Raleigh Elementary kindergarten teacher Shilo DeShield begins the first virtual lesson of the school year from her home on Aug. 17, 2020.
Dancer, creative director and producer Myra Vincenza performs an original piece titled "Fabricating Reverence" in Raleigh.
Angela Salamanca, owner of Raleigh's Centro restaurant, at home on April 8, 2020. "I go back and forth between despair and frustration," she said about pandemic aid packages. "No aid has come yet. The uncertainty of it all is really scary."
Members of the Outlaws Horse Club ride before a memorial service for George Floyd in Hoke County, N.C., where Floyd was born, on June 6, 2020.
Saint Augustine’s University juniors Drea Taylor, right, and Mikahya Hill, left, use rowing machines during practice on April 11, 2022. The students are part of the school's first crew team.
Charles McNeair was 16 years old in 1980 when he accepted a plea deal after a white woman accused him of rape in Davidson County. He's been incarcerated ever since, and advocates fighting for his clemency say the case was heavily influenced by racism.
Laura Saavedra Forero, a UNC student living on the fourth floor of a residence hall, needed to get to the campus health clinic when she was told the elevator in her building was broken. Hours went by before she was carried down the stairwell.
Arlisha Hill at home in Maple Hill, N.C. on April 27, 2020. Hurricane Florence damaged the residence in 2018, and Hill lived in a FEMA trailer in her yard for 15 months. Although Hill began living in her home again, repairs were unfinished and recovery efforts slowed due to COVID-19 restrictions on gathering in groups, and supply chain issues.