Lordes Reboyoso yells at a rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco to protest President Donald Trump's aggressive moves to tighten the nation's immigration controls. A new study showed that sanctuary cities like San Francisco are safer and have stronger economies. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption
Immigration agents conduct an arrest in Southern California. President Trump's executive order on immigration broadened the category of immigrants whom the government considers a priority for deportation. J. Emilio Flores/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
People walk past a mural of comedian Bill Cosby on the side of Ben's Chili Bowl restaurant in Washington, D.C., Dec. 31, 2015. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Roxane Gay accepts her Freedom to Write Award at PEN Center USA's literary awards festival. Matt Sayles/Matt Sayles/Invision/AP hide caption
My family's typical Chinese New Year's Eve included incense, praying to our ancestors and digging into a giant spread of symbolic foods. Chelsea Beck/NPR hide caption
Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered at Columbus Circle in New York for a protest march to Trump Tower after the president signed an order to advance the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
Demonstrators protest during the Women's March on Washington in D.C. Joshua Lott/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Leila Prelec with son Sergei Tourien at Donald Trump's inauguration. Prelec said she brought Sergei with her from Medfield, Mass., "to experience love of country." Keith Woods hide caption
Supporters react on the National Mall to the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Obama's blackness raised the stakes of his success, exposed the constraints of his office, and made the whiteness at the center of American politics permanently visible. Chelsea Beck/NPR hide caption
Simon Tam of The Slants. Ariel Zambelich/NPR hide caption
Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced the Baltimore Police Department's commitment to a sweeping overhaul of its practices under a court-enforceable agreement with the federal government. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption
First lady Michelle Obama welcomes community leaders from across the country to celebrate the successes and share best practices to continue the work of the Mayor's Challenge to End Veterans' Homelessness in the East Room of the White House complex in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP hide caption
A Cuban migrant bound for the U.S. by way of Central America rests in a shelter in Costa Rica in November 2015. Until President Obama ended the so-called wet-foot, dry-foot policy on Thursday, Cubans who reached U.S. soil either by sea or land were allowed to stay and seek permanent residency. Ezequiel Becerra/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
