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    In A Small Town, Girls' Basketball Team Is 'Another Definition For Family'

    In a rural North Carolina town, photographer Madeline Gray paints an intimate portrait of a girl's basketball team.
    by Madeline Gray Dec 05, 2020 2 minutes
    Top: Kinston High School basketball player Taliyah Jones goes up for a shot. The girls basketball team was undefeated in their conference for the 2019-2020 season. Left: Sheriece Jones, Zykia Andrews and Quiaira Powell cheer for their teammates. Right: Sheriece Jones is helped up from the court by teammates Kahlia Hargett and Quiaira Powell during a game.

    Photographer Madeline Gray moved to Kinston, N.C., in early 2018. As a teenager, Gray played on her high school's basketball team in rural Ohio. In Kinston, she found a chance to revisit that formative experience.

    Gray spent over a year getting to know the girls basketball team at Kinston High

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