Photos of New Orleans, Louisiana, including sunset over Bayou St. John, Parkway Bakery, and St. Louis Cathedral.

Images of African-Americans who have left the north to move back to the South. For most of the 20th century, African-Americans were fleeing the South. The 2000 Census showed the South's first black population increase in more than a century. It is a growing trend that has caught demographers' attention. By 2010, about 57 percent of the nation's African-Americans were living in the South – a higher percentage than at any time in 50 years. For my full story in Christian Science Monitor, please visit http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2014/0316/Why-African-Americans-are-moving-back-to-the-South.

Images made for Christian Science Monitor to accompany a story about homelessness in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Images from the Krewe of Hermes Mardi Gras parade at Lee Circle, Feb. 28, 2014, in New Orleans, Louisiana.