Social Issues

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The author standing next to statue of Nelson Mandela in Maya Angelou’s sculpture garden at her Winston-Salem home.

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In this June 6, 2014 photo, Syrian refugee children smile while watching members of "Clowns Without Borders" perform at a Syrian refugee camp in the eastern town of Chtoura, in Bekaa valley, Lebanon. The children are among the more than 1 million Syrians who have flooded into Lebanon over the past three years, fleeing the violence that has ripped apart their homeland. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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This Monday, June 16, 2014 photo shows Diane Conrad, left to right, Cyndy Stapleton, Bill Palmisano, and Melinda Elkins Dawson posing for a portrait in North Canton, Ohio. A northern Georgia doctor running off-the-books adoptions in the 1950s and ’60s placed infants with out-of-state parents who paid hundreds of dollars and were listed on records as the children’s real parents. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

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Lawrenceville, Va. residents listen during a presentation by federal officials involved in the placement of immigrant children at St Paul's College Thursday. The program is on hold pending comments from residents. (Associated Press)

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Alfonso Aguilar, of Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles (above), speaks at the March for Marriage on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. Also attending were two fathers with Franciscans of Primitive Observance. (photographs by andrew harnik/the washington times)

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**FILE** Kansas House Minority Leader Paul Davis, right, a Lawrence Democrat, asks questions about plans to shift $675 million among various government accounts so that the state can pay its bills on time over the next year, Thursday, June 19, 2014, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Gov. Sam Brownback and legislative leaders, including Davis, have signed off on those plans. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

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Female attendees at a rally to support Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's election were allegedly raped and sexually assaulted by Muslim Brotherhood supporters. (AP Photo/Heba Khamis, File)