Amin Maalouf, a French writer and author, believes that violence can be a result of tensions between identity and belonging. He writes about the need to find new ways to think about identity.
Photograph of Chief Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz at the Nuremberg Trial.
Ngaujah takes a break at a local restaurant, where he often rests during the day to escape from the heat on the streets. Usually he does not eat or drink during the day, saving the money he receives for his family. The only reason he is having a drink on this day is because a visitor bought it for him. Photograph by Sara Terry.
This is a view of a Southern U.S. street in the mid-1930s, Alabama.
A window destroyed in a Jewish owned business. Berlin, Germany, November 1938.
A special newspaper edition that was published on October 1, 1946 announcing the pronouncement of sentences at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany
Photograph of poet and resistance member Abraham Sutzkever posing with child artist Zalmen Bok (Sam Bak) shortly after the liberation.
General Douglas MacArthur observes as Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru signs the Instrument of Surrender.
Acipco Elementary School in Birmingham, Alabama, late 1930s.
C. P. Ellis, a former Ku Klux Klan member, and Ann Atwater, a community activist, formed an unlikely partnership after being assigned as co-leaders of a group of citizens navigating court-ordered school desegregation in Durham, North Carolina, in the 1970s.