(photo by Cheriss May/Ndemay Media Group) North Carolina A&T's marching band performs during halftime of Howard University's 93rd Annual Homecoming game, at Greene Stadium in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, October 22, 2016.
(photo by Astrid Riecken) Alone by Hermann Hesse There lead over the earth Streets and ways many, But all have The same goal. You can ride and travel By two and by three, (But) the last step You must go alone. So there is no knowledge Nor skill / ability so good, But that one everything difficult (must) alone do.
(photo by Alexandra Dietz) Hayden Sheridan, 10, plays dress-up in her aunt Hannah's jingle dress as it starts to snow. Homemade regalia will often stay in the family for years being passed down from generation to generation. El Reno, Oklahoma 2016.
(photo by Carol Guzy) The tiny, battered, weeping face of a 4-year-old child named Noor who escaped with her mother during fierce battle with ISIS in Mosul, Iraq is treated at a trauma field hospital operated by Aspen Medical and World Health Organization in Athba, 15 kilometers from the front line on May. 19, 2017. She sustained shrapnel wounds and injuries after their home collapsed.
(photo by Susana Raab/Institute) At the annual Classic Women's Tea Party friends and fellow Ms. District of Columbia's current and past gather to celebrate their community and the creativity of host Elvera Patrick (not pictured) at her Congress Heights, DC 19th century farmhouse, known as "The Pink Palace."
(photo by Cheriss May/Ndemay Media Group) First Lady Michelle Obama speaks after a panel with the cast of the movie “Hidden Figures”, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, December 15, 2016.
(photo by Amy Toensing) Widows from ashrams around Vrindavan play with color during a Holi celebration event at the Gopinath Temple in Vrindavan, India, March 21, 2016. The event was organized by Sulabh International, which has been striving to bring widows back to society's mainstream - traditionally, it is taboo for widows to celebrate holidays.
(photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) Exhausted, hot and hurting, Ella Murray sighs as she hangs over the side of the bathtub May 11, 2017 in Alexandria, VA. Ella has a rare genetic disease called Epidermolysis Bullosa which causes her fragile skin to blister and scar. Three times a week she must soak off the old bandages and have her mother dress the wounds all over her body a process that can take three to five hours.
(photo by Deveney Williams) Scrolling for my #1 fan.
(photo by Mary F. Calvert) Nurse Almaz Deressa talks to a patient who came to the Hamlin Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from Somalia. The patient, 20 years old, was in labor for three days before she gave birth to a stillborn baby and suffers from vaginal fistula and dropfoot. After only 24 days, she came to Hamlin Fistula Hospital for treatment.
(photo by Gabriella Demczuk) Mecca Verde, 18, stands with other demonstrators of the Black Lives Matter movement at the Inner Harbor protesting the confirmation of Kevin Davis as the new Baltimore City Police Commissioner in Baltimore, Md., on Oct. 19, 2015. Protestors were opposed to his confirmation stating that he did not reach out to residents to learn the issues plaguing their community after the riots in April and the steady rise in homicides.
(photo by Claire Harbage) Ana Sabashvili bakes loaves of bread in a traditional woodfired oven on the compound of the displacement camp where she lives in Berbuki, Georgia. Her family, including her son Giorgi (left) fled war in South Ossetia in 2008, and have lived at the displacement camp for nine years.
(photo by Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press) Samantha Bischoff, left, compliments Hannah Shraim on her prom dress during Northwest High School's senior prom at the Fillmore Theater in Silver Spring, Md., on Friday, May 13, 2016. Senior class president and an observant Muslim, Shraim prays five times a day, wears the hijab, and hopes to become an advocate for Muslims in the United States. Although not the only Muslim student attending her diverse high school’s prom, she was the only student wearing a hijab among the hundreds of sequined dancers that evening.
(photo by Lise Metzger) Suzanne Nelson of Reverence Farms in Saxapahaw, NC, has raised dairy cows for the past 8 years using a progressive approach in the dairy industry that allows each calf to stay nursing on its (or another) mother for about 8 months. This was the first time, due to a variety of circumstances, that she’s had to bottle feed a handful of them.
(photo by Carol Guzy) Jerry Kramer with Love for the Least, a grass roots NGO, tenderly holds Syrian refugee Shivan Sulaiman Ibrahim, his body now twisted and contracted, in the end stages of dying at Camp Domiz in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on May 11, 2017 after his family fled ISIS. His mother Murdya Mahmood Khalil weeps as she accepts the imminent loss of her son. A doctor on the medical mission suggests the most humane treatment is palliative care. Many of the disabled are shunned by the community and husbands abandon the family, as did Murdya's spouse. Her other young son is showing signs of the progressive deformities as well. It is believed that marriages between close relatives may be the cause of many genetic birth defects in the refugee camps. As a result of the conflicts many of the men were killed and it has led to these marriages. As Shivan fades away, the war with ISIS continues to wage in Mosul.
(photo by Aubrey Gemignani/NASA) Fifty fourth-grade Girl Scouts participate in the Friendship Circle at the first-ever White House Campout held as part of the Let's Move! Outside initiative on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 in Washington, DC. NASA provided telescopes and led a stargazing activity with scientists and astronaut Cady Coleman in attendance.
(photo by Gabriela Bulisova) "Before I learned to speak the grown-ups in my world stole my language, my right to speak. My mind has always been jumbled with images of Satan and God and my first memory is of fog and images no one else could see. I stopped looking in the mirror when I was eleven, until I went into foster care in high school, because my mother told me I had 'Seven plus one demons' in me and I could see them so I stopped looking at myself. Can you see that demon to the right? Mocking me. When I turned 13 I started having migraines that felt like if I opened my eyes someone, one of those demons, was stabbing me in my skull all the way down to my eyes. I had no words; just fear, pain and demons reminding me I was damaged. Not even God could love me." Taylar Nuevelle
(photo by Kate Warren) Bride-to-be Noor Tagouri eats dinner with the help of her sister Yuser during her henna party, a Libyan pre-wedding event exclusively for the bride and female friends and family that features special dances and a henna ceremony. Tagouri wears an ornate outfit called Al Badla Al Kabeera ("the big outfit") whose stiff embroidered fabric doesn't allow her to bend her arms; she donned the outfit with the help of her grandmothers as is tradition.
(photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post) Free Speech in Action: A protestor is tackled by police in the buffer around the rally stage, just below former Secretary Hillary Clinton, while she spoke during a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa on Friday August 10, 2016.
(photo by Sarah Baker) Children play outside at Saint Theresa Primary Girls School in Mattru Jong, Sierra Leone.
(photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) Andris Trujillo, 8, tosses a yellow balloon into the air on August 15, 2015 in the impoverished Cerro Hill neighborhood of Havana, Cuba. At this time, there was an air of hopefulness in the air as talks were held between the United States and Cuban governments for the first time in more than five decades. Cubans hoped that a thawed relation would bring them a better life.