Players huddle in the dugout during a vintage baseball game Muzzy Field in Bristol, Conn. Historic baseball fans from as far as Baltimore and Maine came from around the region to play games using rules from the 1860s —including underhand pitches, big wooden bats, and no gloves.
Elementary school student Tabitha Powell runs through a group of men giving high fives on the first day of school in August 2023. The local organization Calling All Brothers holds back to school greetings every year for students in Hartford. “Support the kids, support the youth, support the future,” said Fred Phillips, one of the attendees.
Rebecca Barrie a.k.a. Gory Killmore of the Hartford Wailers. The league she skates with Hartford Area Roller Derby centers both athleticism and inclusivity on the rink.
Hyclis Williams, President of AFSCME Local 3429, walks with a large group of teachers, paraprofessionals, clergy, union members, and other supporters down the streets of New Haven, Conn. to call for more state funding for public schools across the state.
A portrait of Hamden Public Schools Superintendent Gary Highsmith. Three schools in his district have been designated as racially imbalanced -- but he says desegregation efforts could place more of a burden on Black and brown families than white families.
New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker celebrates with supporters after winning the 2023 Democratic primary.
Jane Fawcett, 86, former Vice Chairman of the Mohegan tribe, stands for a portrait after a repatriation ceremony where handwritten papers of 18th century Mohegan scholar Samson Occom were returned to the Mohegan Tribe. Fawcett grew up on the home site of Occom. “He was the person I looked to — he inspired me to go to college. He was always there for me.” she said.
Ameen Mokdad is a violinist from Iraq. He’ll be touring Connecticut with Hartford’s Cuatro Puntos Ensemble performing music he wrote when he was living in hiding from ISIS during its occupation of Mosul. “Music is my freedom,” he said.
A pilot study run by the SEICHE Center at Yale provides direct cash assistance to recently incarcerated people. For Verneisha Snow (above) the intervention is $500 every month, for six months, to each participant — no strings attached. "Luckily, I didn't get to do too much time. But I am a woman with a record. A lot of us have records, but we want to do better in life," Snow said.
Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, stands for a portrait in his home in New Haven, Conn. He represented Ukraine in a lawsuit brought against Russia in the International Court of Justice at The Hague. He said the court could order Russia to suspend military action.
Karen Moore sits for a portrait in East Hampton, Conn. Moore is undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer, and a change in several insurer’s billing codes will make a kind of breast reconstruction surgery inaccessible to her and hundreds of thousands of other people who have breast cancer.
Mairead Koehler holds a sign decrying the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Way as hundreds of protesters march through the streets of downtown New Haven.
Lois Patrick stands in front of the home where she was raised in Bridgeport, Conn. The house was sold at a foreclosure auction, and the remaining equity was reduced by a host of court costs, including excessive fees charged by a state marshal. A group of Connecticut state marshals are facing scrutiny for allegedly overcharging for their work to deliver legal paperwork.
Denise Paley sits for a portrait in her home in Guilford, Conn. on the glider from her son’s nursery. Her 22-year-old son has been incarcerated since 2020, and she's advocated for prisons to make phone calls free so she and other family members can provide critical support and contact to loved ones who are incarcerated.
State Trooper Brian North (center) leaves Milford Superior Court after pleading not guilty to manslaughter charges in the death of 19-year-old Mubarak Soulemane. In 2020, North shot Soulemane after a high-speed chase.
A worker moves a trolley of hot dogs along a rail system on the ceiling from the smoker where they were cooked into the cooling room at the Hummel Bros. hot dog factory in New Haven, Conn.
Hundreds of beds set up in the Moore Field House at Southern Connecticut State University to serve as overflow space for Yale New-Haven Hospital in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thousands of demonstrators block I-95 in New Haven, Connecticut to protest police brutality in Connecticut and across the country following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
A worker at Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana places a pizza into a coal oven during a weekday lunchtime rush. The restaurant was founded in 1925 by Italian immigrant Frank Pepe in New Haven, and has since opened locations across the Northeast.
Kids and their parents cool off in a splash pad at Lighthouse Point Park in New Haven during a stretch of hot weather in Connecticut.