The rate at which black Americans are killed by police is more than twice as high as the rate for white Americans. This is a non-comprehensive list of deaths at the hands of police in the U.S. since Eric Garner's death in July 2014. LA Johnson/NPR hide caption
Traditional Diné medicine practitioner Jeneda Benally, pictured here with her daughter Dahi, is trying to preserve cultural wisdom in danger of being lost during the pandemic. Laurel Morales/KJZZ hide caption
Writer and activist Larry Kramer, here in 1989, was an unapologetically loud and irrepressible voice in the fight against AIDS. Sara Krulwich/Getty Images hide caption
President Trump's Twitter page is displayed on a mobile phone. The social media company flagged one of his tweets about Minneapolis as "glorifying violence" and hid it from public view unless a user clicks on it. Olivier Morin/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Nick Hanauer speaks at TEDSummit: A Community Beyond Borders. July 21-25, 2019, Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo: Bret Hartman / TED Bret Hartman/Bret Hartman / TED hide caption
A young student protester in Tiananmen Square wears a sign which reads: "I love life, I need food, but I'd rather die without democracy." On June 3, 1989, Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping ordered a crackdown and unknown numbers of demonstrators and bystanders were killed. Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images hide caption
Tom Rivett-Carnac speaks as part of TED2020: The Prequel. April 22, 2020. Photo courtesy of TED. TED hide caption
Staff Sgt. Emilio DiPalma (right) stands on guard at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945. Courtesy Emily Aho hide caption
A man stands before the American Flag. Hokyoung Kim for NPR hide caption
A judge in Virginia has ruled that a salvage company may cut into the remains of the Titanic to retrieve the ship's wireless telegraph machine. Artifacts from the sunken vessel are sit on shelves at a storage facility in Atlanta in this Feb. 18 photo. Angie Wang/AP hide caption
An aerial view of the Plinian eruption column, Mount St. Helens, on May 18, 1980. Robert Krimmel/USGS hide caption
Unemployed people wait outside the state Labor Bureau in New York City in 1933. The current economic crisis has drawn comparisons to the Great Depression, but experts say this downturn should be shorter. AP hide caption
A plague doctor in protective clothing. The beak mask was filled with incense thought to purify air and the cane was used to avoid touching patients. Artwork by Paul Furst. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption