New Orleans boxer 'John Boy' Montrel making pro debut Saturday on Regis Prograis undercard. buff.ly/2uvgDch

Best and most realistic article I’ve read on the situation in Ukraine. No one can predict what Russia will do next - CNN apple.news/A61q_nVzHTMqx7…

The Ukrainian Soldiers Who Can't Rest | PDN Photo of the Day shar.es/a3KWp2 via @pdnonline JT Blatty

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Congrats JT Blatty on today's release of Snapshots Sent Home: From Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine–A Memoir elvaresa.com/snapshots-sent…

A riveting account from a US Army vet who used her photography skills to document the lives of Ukrainian volunteers.

“I will stop when they stop killing off my nation. I have been to the States, I have been to Europe, I have seen how people live. Specifically, live. I won’t put my weapons in a closet until that day comes.” elvaresa.com/book/snapshots…

“Those who have power have their own rules, for others there is law. If we were a more active society, we would be able to choose. I said, people, in order to have flowers on the ground, we have to preserve this land first.” elvaresa.com/book/snapshots…

“No matter how hard it is, somehow, we have to finish this thing. The guys that were fighting believed in victory and they wouldn’t want us, the last volunteers, to just leave everything like this.” elvaresa.com/book/snapshots…

“I love my Ukraine, but sometimes I think about my son, and even I think about leaving. It’s scary, that those like us who went to Maidan and who went to the war in the beginning, who fought from the soul, that we can think like this. Because then what were we fighting for?”

10 years ago today many of the participants of Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution of 2014 still hold the line and have volunteered again in fighting against Russian invasion. JT Blatty lived with + chronicled them in her memoir "Snapshots Sent Home" elvaresa.com/book/snapshots…

10 y/a, Russian agents infiltrated and illegally annexed Crimea. Patterns continue on a horrifying level, yet many have accepted the war as a new normal. Would it be normal in your back yard? This doesn’t stop in Ukraine. militaryfamilybooks.com/collections/fe…

This is an Oscars moment worth watching.

“I’m a photographer,” writes U.S. veteran and photojournalist J.T. Blatty, “But really, I’m just a human drawn toward the truth, in snapshots of truth.” We review Blatty’s new memoir, which chronicles her path to front-line photojournalism. kyivindependent.com/us-veteran-and…

J.T. Blatty on Writing in a War Zone buff.ly/46MjCPf

Life Without Lee: What the monument will look like once the statue comes down

Check out ESSENCE Festival Saturday photos: Mary J. Blige @chakakhan & @jillscott what a night! theadvocate.com/new_orleans/mu… via The Advocate

Storms are like living creatures. No two are exactly alike: on.natgeo.com/2w7O8jY