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Joyeeta Banerjee in her classroom in India. She is an English teacher from Bankura, a district in a rural area of West Bengal, India. For 24 years she has taught first-generation learners — children who speak Bengali or Santali at home. Anupam Gangopadhyay hide caption
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson stands on the steps of the Hinds county courthouse in Jackson, Mississippi, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1984 after leading a large groups students and supporters from the Jackson State University campus to the Courthouse to register voters. Tannen Maury/ASSOCIATED PRESS/AP hide caption
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, ITALY - FEBRUARY 10: Vladyslav Heraskevych of Team Ukraine participates during Men's Training Heat 3 on day four of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Cortina Sliding Centre on February 10, 2026 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Al Bello/Getty Images/Getty Images Europe hide caption
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Martin Luther King Jr speaks to civil rights marchers in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 25, 1965. He was a believer in health care for all: "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman." Stephen F. Somerstein/via Getty Images hide caption
23-year-old chimpanzee Ai, known for her ability to recognize some letters and numbers, holds her 35-centimetre-tall newborn male chimp Ayumu, 25 April 2000, at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in Inuyama, central Japan. AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption
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