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Sanari Hendricks, 31, of Douglasville shared her traumatic birth experience in the CDC's Hear Her campaign. By the time it was released, she had lost her son, Zeus. (Courtesy of Mike Newman / Shane Michael Photography)

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Rep. Justin Lafferty, R-Knoxville, watches the tally board during a vote in the House of Representatives on Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee. Lafferty falsely declared that an 18th-century policy designating a slave as three-fifths of a person was adopted for "the purpose of ending slavery," commenting amid a debate over whether educators should be restricted while teaching about systematic racism in America.

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Letitia Sanabria poses for a portrait in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A national effort helping to bail poor and low-income people out of jail formally announced on Tuesday its expansion into the Deep South. Sanabria still weeps when she thinks about the few days last winter that she spent in a Louisiana parish jail because she couldn’t afford to post bond on $5,000 bail. (AP Photo/Dorthy Ray)

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One of his oldest friends from the movement is comedian and activist Dick Gregory. C.T. Vivian's often recounts an evening where Gregory showed up at his Atlanta home for a party. Vivian said afterwards, he had to explain to his children some of Gregory's "blue," humor.

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The pool cabana in the backyard of Whitney and Nathan Durham’s Fulton County home provides a place outside for the family to relax and spend time together. A rattan sofa and club swivel chairs from Summer Classics paired with a vintage fiberglass and glass coffee table from Antique Factory make a comfortable seating arrangement, and the custom area rug from Myers Carpet makes the space feel polished and chic. Text by Shannon Dominy/Photo by Reynolds Rogers

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Two years ago Jane and John Hall worked with Merodynamic Pools to renovate their pool and deck around the pool, and the following year the couple installed an outdoor kitchen and built a pair of pergolas themselves. Text by Shannon Dominy/Photo by Reynolds Rogers

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04/26/2021 —Atlanta, Georgia — Atlanta resident David Cato stands for a portrait in his community in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood, Monday, April 26, 2021. Cato is in the process of quitting smoking and wears a Nicotine patch to keep him on the right path. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)

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A poll worker wearing protective gloves waits to assist voters during special election voting at City Hall to fill an empty city council seat on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, in Dacula. The voting happened to be on a day that was supposed to be the test run for the state's new election system before coronavirus COVID-19 caused it to be called off. (John Amis for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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People gather outside the municipal building after at least one Pasquotank County Sheriff's deputy shot and killed a Black man while executing a search warrant, the sheriff's office said, Wednesday in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The deputy was wearing an active body camera at the time of the shooting, said Sheriff Tommy Wooten II, who declined to say how many shots the deputy fired or release any other details, citing a pending review by the State Bureau of Investigation.

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Katie Wright, mother of Daunte Wright, gets a hug from attorney Ben Crump during a visitation for Daunte Wright on Wednesday in Minneapolis. Daunte Wright, whose funeral is Thursday, was fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

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People march on Edgewood Avenue following the verdict in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Like the rest of the country, Atlanta residents awaited the verdict Tuesday afternoon for Chauvin, who is accused of killing George Floyd. At 5 p.m., the verdict was announced: Guilty. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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