Afternoon Tea, 1886. Chromolithograph after Kate Greenaway. If you're looking for finger sandwiches, dainty desserts and formality, afternoon tea is your cup. Print Collector/Getty Images hide caption
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The Cherry Sisters: Three of the siblings strike a theatrical pose. The History Center hide caption
American Expatriates: Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein, seen here in 1934, thought of themselves as married. Courtesy of New York Public Library hide caption
Former band student Rosalee Talahongva in front of her old music building, which is being turned into a Native American cultural center. Christopher Livesay for NPR hide caption
Phoenix Students Restore School To Reclaim Native American Identity
Grace sits before a "Welcome Friends" sign in her home. Courtesy of American Revolutionary hide caption
Friday
Gwen Moten remembers her childhood friend, Denise McNair, who died with three other girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963. StoryCorps hide caption
Charleston Stirs Memories Of Young Birmingham Bombing Victim
Helena Hicks has remained active in Baltimore through eras of desegregation and the drug trade. Now she gives back to her childhood neighborhood, the same one where Freddie Gray lived. Jennifer Ludden/NPR hide caption
A Baltimore Civil Rights Icon Is Still Pushing To Help City's Young
Thursday
The state flag of Mississippi is unfurled against the front of the Governor's Mansion in Jackson, Miss., on Tuesday. The flag has been the center of renewed controversy since last week's racially motivated shooting of nine parishioners at a black church in South Carolina. Rogelio V. Solis/AP hide caption
Art of the people: Fill a glass with hope, a butter sculpture crafted by Jim Victor and Marie Pelton. "People don't understand how [the sculpting] is done -- it's like magic and just appears," Victor says. "But people understand butter." Courtesy of Jim Victor and Marie Pelton hide caption
Bill Tanner works to remove graffiti from a statue of Jefferson Davis at the University of Texas in Austin. The statue is one of several around the country that have been targeted by vandals in recent days. Deborah Cannon/Austin American-Statesman via AP hide caption
Beyond The Battle Flag: Controversy Over Confederate Symbols Unfurls
Wednesday
People join hands in a moment of silence as thousands of marchers meet in the middle of Charleston's main bridge in a show of unity. David Goldman/AP hide caption
Tuesday
Confederate Flag Debate Symbolizes Rapid Change In The South
Hollywood couple Silvano Balboni and his wife, June Mathis, play a spirited game of Puff Billiards in the mid-1920s. Underwood & Underwood/Corbis hide caption
Adele Block-Bauer, photographed circa 1915, was from a prominent Jewish family in Vienna. IMAGNO/Austrian Archives hide caption