Members of the Pan African Rhythm Cooperative perform at Rotary Park in Cape May, N.J., during a celebration of Juneteenth and the town's new Harriet Tubman Museum. Emma Lee/WHYY hide caption
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Police and firefighters respond after a truck drove into a crowd of people injuring them during The Stonewall Pride Parade and Street Festival in Wilton Manors, Fla., on Saturday, June 19, 2021. Chris Day/AP hide caption
Artist Duane Koyawena learned he was going to be a father while in rehab. He says he's stayed sober for the sake of his daughter, Peyton. Courtesy of Duane Koyawena hide caption
A Hopi Artist Grapples With His Complicated Legacy And Learns To Be A Better Father
Father's Day, which started in 1910, takes place on the third Sunday of June every year. istetiana/Getty Images hide caption
Police say a driver in a pickup truck plowed into bicyclists competing in a community road race in Arizona, critically injuring several riders. Authorities say officers then chased down the driver Saturday and shot him outside a nearby hardware store. Jim Headley/The White Mountain Independent via AP hide caption
Present at the unveiling was an emotional Terrance Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, who has been a significant presence in protests since his brother's death. David Dee Delgado/Getty Images hide caption
Visitors view exhibits at the National Confederate Museum on June 6, 2021, in Columbia, Tenn. Mark Humphrey/AP hide caption
Will wipes away sweat on a hot day while walking down Willow Street in Lynn, Mass., as he looks to distribute safety supplies to drug users on the street. Jesse Costa/WBUR hide caption
He Lost Nearly Everything To Addiction. Then An Arrest Changed His Life
Huntington was once ground-zero for this opioid epidemic. Several years ago, they formed a team that within days visits everyone who overdoses to try to pull them back from the brink. The county's overdose rate plummeted. They wrestled down an HIV cluster. They finally felt hope. Then the pandemic arrived and it undid much of their effort: overdoses shot up again, so did HIV diagnoses. David Goldman/AP hide caption
Visitors feel the heat in California's Death Valley earlier this week. This record-setting heat wave's remarkable power, reach and unusually early appearance is giving meteorologists yet more cause for concern about extreme weather in an era of climate change. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Joe Biden is joined by Vice President Kamala Harris and members of Congress at the signing the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law in the East Room of the White House on June 17, 2021. Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
A group of 11 mayors, including LA's Eric Garcetti, have pledged to pay reparations for slavery to a small group of Black residents. The mayors have committed to form commissions to advise them on how to develop the programs. Ashley Landis/AP hide caption
Rioters clash with police as they push barricades to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The Washington Homestead Grays, seen here around 1946, split their home games between Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C. The team won the Negro World Series in 1948, the championship's final year. Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Inc. hide caption
President Joe Biden takes questions from reporters as he speaks about the American Rescue Plan, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, May 5, in Washington. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
Mike Marshall is the co-founder and director of Oregon Recovers. He says he's concerned the state is failing to expand addiction treatment capacity in a strategic way. "So we put the cart before the horse," he says. Eric Westervelt/NPR hide caption
Oregon's Pioneering Drug Decriminalization Experiment Is Now Facing The Hard Test
Jo and Chad Vill in Brooklyn, N.Y., this month. Nathan West hide caption
In Pandemic Isolation, Father And Son DJs Spun Music Into A Community
Patricia McCloskey and her husband Mark McCloskey pleaded guilty to misdemeanor crimes on Thursday. They also agreed to forfeit both weapons they used when they confronted protesters in front of their home in June of last year. Jim Salter/AP hide caption
Wilma Mankiller, the first woman elected chief of the Cherokee Nation, poses in front of the tribal emblem at the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma in 1985. She will be featured on a U.S. quarter. AP hide caption
Are you getting a lot of postcards and calls with unsolicited offers to buy your house? We want to hear from you. LA Johnson/NPR hide caption
The Robertson Draw Fire south of Red Lodge, Mont. InciWeb hide caption
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson speaks at a campaign rally at a gun store in October in Lee's Summit, Mo. Parson has signed into law a measure that could fine state and local law enforcement officers $50,000 for helping to enforce federal gun laws. Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption
The Statue of Liberty and the New York skyline are seen as fireworks go off in New York Harbor in celebration of reaching 70% of New York adults having received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images hide caption