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Photos by Lefteris Pitarakis & Text by Berza Simsek

On any given summer day, the hot sun glares down on the streets of Gaziantep, a Turkish city on the border with Syria. Inside stifling garment and shoe workshops, Syrian refugee children are hard at work, sewing machines buzzing in the background. Continue reading

In this Thursday, May 19, 2016 photo, Pauline Copes Johnson, a great-great-grandniece of Harriet Tubman, poses outside the Thompson A.M.E. Zion Church in Auburn, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Photos by Mike Groll

Harriet Tubman’s upcoming debut on the $20 bill is just half the good news in the upstate New York town where the Underground Railroad conductor settled down and grew old. Continue reading

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In this Dec. 11, 2015 photo, an American flag is seen outside the childhood home of Barbara Hicks Collins, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in honor of her father, civil rights activist Robert Hicks, in Bogalusa, La. The home was both the site of mobilization of civil rights activism, and the target of Ku Klux Klan hostility. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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He called himself “The Greatest,” but Muhammad Ali was humble, friendly and eminently approachable whenever he came to this out-of-the-way spot in northeastern Pennsylvania to train throughout the 1970s. Continue reading