Ethan Smith (left) and Remi Rose Stavish “absorb the energies” of some freshly-lit mullein stocks, colloquially known as “hag torches” during the Hourglass Kids’ performance at the 18th annual Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival in Pittsboro, N.C. on Thursday, May 5, 2022.

Nyra Fields-Miller, overcome with emotion about her deceased son, is lowered to the ground in the middle of her speech outside the St. Paul Governor's Mansion where families and community members advocated for the release of State Patrol footage of the death of Ricky Cobb II in St. Paul, Minn. on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. Ricky Cobb II was murdered at the hands of Minnesota law enforcement during a traffic stop on Interstate 94 in north Minneapolis.

Cirque du Soleil's Valentyna Pahlevanyan floats by helium balloon into the audience during the show “Corteo” on opening night at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. on Thursday, July 14, 2023. Corteo, which means cortege in Italian, is a joyous procession – a festive parade imagined by a clown.

Ethan Benner from Vale, Ore. waits at the base of the high dive while someone else prepares to jump from the top at the Vale community pool on June 24, 2021, the hottest recorded June month in the county.

Mohagany Foster waits outside of a Days Inn, where she is residing for the foreseeable future until she can find an apartment - both the money for one and one that will accept her application as a transgender former convict.

Stephanie Ortega-Waltman from France contorts her body around a suspended pole during Cirque du Soleil's "Corteo" on opening night at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. on Thursday, July 14, 2023. Corteo, which means cortege in Italian, is a joyous procession – a festive parade imagined by a clown.

Sofia Zografos starts to build a snow man on the normally-sandy beach of Edem in Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece on Feb. 16, 2021, the first snow snorm in 12 years for Athens. Like many other young Athenians, this was Zografos' first time ever experiencing snow.

Members of Carolina Black Caucus gather around Hortense McClinton, the first Black faculty member at UNC, at the Hortense McClinton Residence Hall Dedication Ceremony at UNC in Chapel Hill, N.C. on Friday, May 13, 2022.

Avery Wyatt Boyer, a 2022 graduate at the School for the Blind in Raleigh, N.C. joins his classmates in prayer before the group’s Commencement ceremony at Lineberry Hall on Friday, June 3, 2022. Students come from across the state to the school for its education services for the deaf and visually impaired. Many of the graduates, including Boyer, came to the school over a decade ago and have been waiting their entire education for this moment.

Eugene Cole, 86-year-old resident of Ontario, Ore. on the porch outside his house on June 7, 2021. Over the past five years, the city of Ontario has been disproportionately targeting and fining residents such as Cole in lower-income neighborhoods for code enforcement violations. Many of these fines are of extreme prices (many in the thousands range) for violations as simple as overgrowth. In Cole's case, he worked on junk cars as a career and was fined repeatedly for having said cars in his yard while he was working on them.

Ryley Gibson, Siobhán Gibson's son, scales to the top of his mom's dance pole in the master bedroom. Siobhán stumbled into pole dancing when she saw a new studio in her small town of Novato, Cali. called “Entangled and Sway,” that she thought was for tango classes. After realizing what it really was, she decided to go for it anyway, thinking it’d be a fun way to reclaim her body after such a destructive pregnancy. She became hooked and now dances three times a week in addition to the practice she does on the home pole her husband Jason bought for during the pandemic.

Camryn Brown, 20, scolds one of the U.S. Capitol Police officers forming a protective circle around another anti-abortion rights instigator. Brown shouted into the megaphone, “It’s clear whose side you’re on. You’ve made it abundantly clear.”

Siobhán Gibson leaves for her pole class as her family bids her goodbye by clucking like chickens. She did this “chicken dance” one day with her oldest son as a joke when her husband was leaving the house, and it stuck. Now, every time someone is leaving, the kids run up and down the driveway flapping their arms and clucking until the person leaving is out of sight.

Emmie Gates, a Class of 2022 Graduate from Cary High School, talks with her peers before the school’s Graduation Ceremony at the Raleigh Convention Center on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. This is the first “normal” graduation the school has seen since 2019 before the pandemic.

In between prayer sessions for Eid al-Adha, or the “Feast of Sacrifice,” a young boy laughs with his brother at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Minn. on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. The Islamic holiday marks the end of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

Taylor Talbot began losing her sight at 2 years old and was legally blind by 8 from a rare degenerative eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa. Now 20 years old, she has lost all sight in her right eye and only has ~5% tunnel vision in her left. And yet her sight has hardly hindered her passions in life nor her determination as an athlete. In 2021, she qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, only to have her qualification revoked after a miscalculation. She fought hard for her spot to stay on Team USA and through her athletic grit, emotional perseverance and family support, Talbot ended up competing alongside her teammates in Tokyo in the 100- and 400-meter dashes.

UNC sophomore Eszter Rimanyi models for a portrait on Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. "In high school, modeling took over everything I did but it's been so hard to find gigs in college with such a busy schedule," Rimanyi said.

During a record-breaking heatwave, a young boy leaps from the high dive at the Vale Pool in Vale, Ore. on Thursday, June 24, 2021.

Bryce Andrews tosses his newly-signed football as Caitlin Andrews (left) and Jana Andrews watch at Vikings Training Camp in Eagan, Minn. on Monday, Aug. 7, 2023.

The outgoing Miss Teen Minnesota, Ava Ernst, enters the stage for the Miss Minnesota USA & Miss Minnesota Teen USA Pageant at the Ames Center in Burnsville, Minn. on Sunday, June 30, 2023.

The crowd sings “Hey Jude” in unison during the Fabulous Armadillo’s performance at the Taste of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minn., on Sunday, July 2, 2023. This is the festival’s first year back after a short hiatus and the festival’s first time in Minneapolis.

Minnesota Wind Chill cutter Bryan Vohnoutka (3) competes with the Indianapolis Alleycats for the disc at the ultimate frisbee game at Sea Foam Stadium in Saint Paul, Minn. on Sunday, July 9, 2023. Wind Chill kept a lead the whole game and won 22-17.

André Figueredo rocks out during the Third Eye Blind performance at the Taste of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minn., on Sunday, July 2, 2023. This is the festival’s first year back since 2015, as well as the festival’s first time in Minneapolis.

Ethan Smith (left) and Remi Rose Stavish “absorb the energies” of some freshly-lit mullein stocks, colloquially known as “hag torches” during the Hourglass Kids’ performance at the 18th annual Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival in Pittsboro, N.C. on Thursday, May 5, 2022.

Nyra Fields-Miller, overcome with emotion about her deceased son, is lowered to the ground in the middle of her speech outside the St. Paul Governor's Mansion where families and community members advocated for the release of State Patrol footage of the death of Ricky Cobb II in St. Paul, Minn. on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. Ricky Cobb II was murdered at the hands of Minnesota law enforcement during a traffic stop on Interstate 94 in north Minneapolis.

Cirque du Soleil's Valentyna Pahlevanyan floats by helium balloon into the audience during the show “Corteo” on opening night at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. on Thursday, July 14, 2023. Corteo, which means cortege in Italian, is a joyous procession – a festive parade imagined by a clown.

Ethan Benner from Vale, Ore. waits at the base of the high dive while someone else prepares to jump from the top at the Vale community pool on June 24, 2021, the hottest recorded June month in the county.

Mohagany Foster waits outside of a Days Inn, where she is residing for the foreseeable future until she can find an apartment - both the money for one and one that will accept her application as a transgender former convict.

Stephanie Ortega-Waltman from France contorts her body around a suspended pole during Cirque du Soleil's "Corteo" on opening night at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. on Thursday, July 14, 2023. Corteo, which means cortege in Italian, is a joyous procession – a festive parade imagined by a clown.

Sofia Zografos starts to build a snow man on the normally-sandy beach of Edem in Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece on Feb. 16, 2021, the first snow snorm in 12 years for Athens. Like many other young Athenians, this was Zografos' first time ever experiencing snow.

Members of Carolina Black Caucus gather around Hortense McClinton, the first Black faculty member at UNC, at the Hortense McClinton Residence Hall Dedication Ceremony at UNC in Chapel Hill, N.C. on Friday, May 13, 2022.

Avery Wyatt Boyer, a 2022 graduate at the School for the Blind in Raleigh, N.C. joins his classmates in prayer before the group’s Commencement ceremony at Lineberry Hall on Friday, June 3, 2022. Students come from across the state to the school for its education services for the deaf and visually impaired. Many of the graduates, including Boyer, came to the school over a decade ago and have been waiting their entire education for this moment.

Eugene Cole, 86-year-old resident of Ontario, Ore. on the porch outside his house on June 7, 2021. Over the past five years, the city of Ontario has been disproportionately targeting and fining residents such as Cole in lower-income neighborhoods for code enforcement violations. Many of these fines are of extreme prices (many in the thousands range) for violations as simple as overgrowth. In Cole's case, he worked on junk cars as a career and was fined repeatedly for having said cars in his yard while he was working on them.

Ryley Gibson, Siobhán Gibson's son, scales to the top of his mom's dance pole in the master bedroom. Siobhán stumbled into pole dancing when she saw a new studio in her small town of Novato, Cali. called “Entangled and Sway,” that she thought was for tango classes. After realizing what it really was, she decided to go for it anyway, thinking it’d be a fun way to reclaim her body after such a destructive pregnancy. She became hooked and now dances three times a week in addition to the practice she does on the home pole her husband Jason bought for during the pandemic.

Camryn Brown, 20, scolds one of the U.S. Capitol Police officers forming a protective circle around another anti-abortion rights instigator. Brown shouted into the megaphone, “It’s clear whose side you’re on. You’ve made it abundantly clear.”

Siobhán Gibson leaves for her pole class as her family bids her goodbye by clucking like chickens. She did this “chicken dance” one day with her oldest son as a joke when her husband was leaving the house, and it stuck. Now, every time someone is leaving, the kids run up and down the driveway flapping their arms and clucking until the person leaving is out of sight.

Emmie Gates, a Class of 2022 Graduate from Cary High School, talks with her peers before the school’s Graduation Ceremony at the Raleigh Convention Center on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. This is the first “normal” graduation the school has seen since 2019 before the pandemic.

In between prayer sessions for Eid al-Adha, or the “Feast of Sacrifice,” a young boy laughs with his brother at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Minn. on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. The Islamic holiday marks the end of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

Taylor Talbot began losing her sight at 2 years old and was legally blind by 8 from a rare degenerative eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa. Now 20 years old, she has lost all sight in her right eye and only has ~5% tunnel vision in her left. And yet her sight has hardly hindered her passions in life nor her determination as an athlete. In 2021, she qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, only to have her qualification revoked after a miscalculation. She fought hard for her spot to stay on Team USA and through her athletic grit, emotional perseverance and family support, Talbot ended up competing alongside her teammates in Tokyo in the 100- and 400-meter dashes.

UNC sophomore Eszter Rimanyi models for a portrait on Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. "In high school, modeling took over everything I did but it's been so hard to find gigs in college with such a busy schedule," Rimanyi said.

During a record-breaking heatwave, a young boy leaps from the high dive at the Vale Pool in Vale, Ore. on Thursday, June 24, 2021.

Bryce Andrews tosses his newly-signed football as Caitlin Andrews (left) and Jana Andrews watch at Vikings Training Camp in Eagan, Minn. on Monday, Aug. 7, 2023.

The outgoing Miss Teen Minnesota, Ava Ernst, enters the stage for the Miss Minnesota USA & Miss Minnesota Teen USA Pageant at the Ames Center in Burnsville, Minn. on Sunday, June 30, 2023.

The crowd sings “Hey Jude” in unison during the Fabulous Armadillo’s performance at the Taste of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minn., on Sunday, July 2, 2023. This is the festival’s first year back after a short hiatus and the festival’s first time in Minneapolis.

Minnesota Wind Chill cutter Bryan Vohnoutka (3) competes with the Indianapolis Alleycats for the disc at the ultimate frisbee game at Sea Foam Stadium in Saint Paul, Minn. on Sunday, July 9, 2023. Wind Chill kept a lead the whole game and won 22-17.

André Figueredo rocks out during the Third Eye Blind performance at the Taste of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minn., on Sunday, July 2, 2023. This is the festival’s first year back since 2015, as well as the festival’s first time in Minneapolis.