KIM WALKER PHOTO

MOMENTS

 

  • August Burns adjusts the necklace of her fiancé, Denise Ingram, before their wedding ceremony begins. The marriage was an important milestone for the women, who had faced struggles gaining acceptance of their long-term relationship.
  • Catastrophic injuries from a 2008 attack offered Elon University School of Law graduate Deborah Moy a unique perspective on disability rights, firsthand knowledge of how the American criminal justice system is flawed and a renewed purpose in life as an advocate for other survivors.
  • Kat DiBona learns to grind coffee by hand and brew it over coals during a coffee ceremony, a common part of Ethiopian culture, at a traditional home in Lalibela, Ethiopia.
  • Eleven-year-old Tracy Boswell, deaf from birth, attempts to get her brother Domino's attention as they play in their street with other kids from their Athens, Ohio, neighborhood. She signs minimally and depends mostly on body and facial expressions to express herself. Domino, 13, says Tracy is annoying because she always follows him and won't let him have any private time with his girlfriend.
  • First year students work together to complete Elon University's low-ropes Challenge Course as a group-building exercise.
  • A group of students participates in a silent protest on Young Commons to bring attention to the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
  • Former President Bill Clinton stops by a mural commemorating the 1992 New Hampshire Primary as he arrives at the Merrimack Restaurant in downtown Manchester, N.H. Clinton was in town to deliver a keynote speech at a local college.
  • Elon students practice Tai Chi on the deck of a cruise boat on Halong Bay in central Vietnam while studying abroad.
  • Michael Melts, 57, reads in Russian to his mother, Hannah Gilis, 85, in a shady spot at Hartford's Elizabeth Park. Gilis is legally blind, and Melts says he helps her out as often as he can. {quote}When I was a baby she cared for me and now I try to do the same. When she's happy, I'm happy too,{quote} he said.
  • Sitting in her hospital bed, leukemia patient Alice Lawrence pauses and places her hands meditatively on the bag of bone marrow she’s about to receive. Her brother came to the United States from Sudan to donate the marrow. After navigating international embassies, innumerable tests and massive costs, Alice, a Sudanese refugee, finally has the marrow she needs to save her life.
  • Stefanie Senkiw Krebs pours water over the head of her new son Patrick, 4, while he bathes with his biological brother Joseph, 2, (left) and adoptive brother Peter, 4. Senkiw Krebs and her husband had just returned to their N.Y. home after adopting three brothers from the Ukraine, bringing their family to a total of four adopted children.
  • A man and child play together along Havana, Cuba's Malécon, a sea wall that runs along the city's coast.
  • Campus Recreation hosts the annual Turkey Trot 5K race to benefit Loaves and Fishes Christian Food Ministry in Alamance County.
  • Although very nervous and teary-eyed, Annette Montford manages a smile as she prepares for her wedding at Park Place Health Center, a rehabilitation and nursing facility. A crowd of well wishers watches from the hallway.
  • Participants in Elon Academy, a college preparatory program for local high school students, work through group exercises at Elon's Challenge Course.
  • People march through the streets of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, praying and chanting, as they celebrate the eve of Timket, the Ethiopian Orthodox celebration of Epiphany.
  • Brittany Davis and Len McCollum (arms raised) dance to the Cha-Cha Slide in an attempt to win free football game tickets before the A&T Homecoming Parade in downtown Greensboro, N.C.
  • Young members of a rural community in Lalibela, Ethiopia, gather around Elon students to share stories and practice their English.
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