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An Illinois man seized on the joy resulting from a proliferation of memes featuring a masked-up, bundled-up Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, building a snowman that nails the look of the two-time presidential candidate on Inauguration Day. (Photo courtesy of Jon Catlin)
ACROSS AMERICA From the nearly 16,000 entries submitted from artists and writers from 128 countries and 48 U.S. states, the jurors in the Embracing Our Differences annual art exhibit selected the work of a Sarasota, Florida, poet among 50 to be featured.
That s no easy feat for anyone, but 19-year-old Seth Morano s quotes have been featured in each of the last four years of the Embracing Our Differences competition, for artists who use their art to evoke social change.
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COVID-19 is an orphan maker. Asare Amaya, 10, lost her father, German Amaya, to the coronavirus. His funeral was held in Miami, Florida, in August, with most mourners attending via a Zoom call. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images, File)
ACROSS AMERICA As the coronavirus vaccine went into the first of Americans arms Tuesday, nine months after the outbreak was declared a global health pandemic, the counter on the U.S. death toll rolled over past 300,000. It s a horrific milestone by any measure, but the days since have been marked by single-day death records that smash the ones set before, plunging Americans deeper by the day into grief and despair.