Leslie Ureña

Driven by duty, inspired by love. Officer Oksana Williams, a Ukrainian Immigrant and Rookie Police Officer for the San Diego Police Department, comes across immigrants migrating on the San Diego, U.S. / Mexico border in 2010

On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stepped up to a microphone in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Inscribed on the walls of the monument behind her were the words “all men are created equal.” Barred from performing in Constitution Hall because of her race, Anderson would sing for the American people in the open air. Hailed as a voice that “comes around once in a hundred years” by maestros in Europe and widely celebrated by both white and black audiences at home, her fame hadn’t been enough to spare her from the indignities and outright violence of racism and segregation.