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Legacee Medina of Macon, Ga. leads chanting at a No Kings rally between an elementary school and pickleball courts in Macon on October 18, 2025. The rally moved from its earlier location downtown to stay out of the way of a planned Hispanic festival. Grant Blankenship/Georgia Public Broadcasting hide caption

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Cachitas Now!, una banda disidente, le canta a un público universitario y queer en La Plata. La vocalista es Melissa Lobos Cachitas Now!, a dissident band, sings to a university and queer audience in La Plata. Their singer is Melissa Lobos. Karla Gachet hide caption

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Cachitas Now!, una banda disidente, le canta a un público universitario y queer en La Plata. La vocalista es Melissa Lobos Cachitas Now!, a dissident band, sings to a university and queer audience in La Plata. Their singer is Melissa Lobos. Karla Gachet hide caption

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Celebration of San Juanes in Cotacachi, province of Imbabura, Ecuador. The Cumbia Andina is a mixture of indigenous rythms from the north of the country, such as San Juanitos played and danced to during the celebrations, and Colombian cumbia. Karla Gachet hide caption

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Celebration of San Juanes in Cotacachi, province of Imbabura, Ecuador. The Cumbia Andina is a mixture of indigenous rythms from the north of the country, such as San Juanitos played and danced to during the celebrations, and Colombian cumbia. Karla Gachet hide caption

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Pedro Tolomeo Rojas, known as Monky, enters his studio en Lima on October 21, 2025. Monky was a pioneer in the making of the posters that publicize cumbia concerts and are now considered chicha art. These colorful posters still cover the grey city of Lima and other cities advertising upcoming concerts. Some say the florescent colors were inspired by the the clothing worn by the women in the indigenous communities. Ivan Kashinsky hide caption

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Pedro Tolomeo Rojas, known as Monky, enters his studio en Lima on October 21, 2025. Monky was a pioneer in the making of the posters that publicize cumbia concerts and are now considered chicha art. These colorful posters still cover the grey city of Lima and other cities advertising upcoming concerts. Some say the florescent colors were inspired by the the clothing worn by the women in the indigenous communities. Ivan Kashinsky hide caption

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Fans, many of them wearing pink and cowboy hats, get off of the streetcar at Union Station before the show. Chappell Roan, who exploded in popularity last summer, only picked three cities on her recent pop-up American tour: New York City, Los Angeles and Kansas City, which is in her home state of Missouri. Katie Currid for NPR hide caption

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People dance at Brenda Cazárez's 40th birthday party as Sonido Colombia plays music in the Privada Cusco neighborhood of Monterrey, Mexico, on Aug. 12, 2023. Ivan Kashinsky hide caption

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People dance at Brenda Cazárez's 40th birthday party as Sonido Colombia plays music in the Privada Cusco neighborhood of Monterrey, Mexico, on Aug. 12, 2023. Ivan Kashinsky hide caption

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Water surrounds homes in the devastated 9th Ward in this aerial view of damage from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Aug. 30, 2005. Smiley N. Pool/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images hide caption

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Dre'Shean Napoleon, right, sits with his mother, Nikkisha Napoleon and niece, Symphony Bradford at the home where Nikkisha Napoleon grew up in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans on July 5, 2025. Tyrone Turner/for NPR hide caption

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Members of Calling All Brothers welcome the students of Dr. Martin Luther King School of Social Justice and Breakthrough Magnet School to their first day of school in Hartford on August 17, 2024. Tyler Russell/Connecticut Public hide caption

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