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Lifelong Oakland residents Jessica Moncada-Konte and Kori Saika Chen have opened a beverage store with a mission: promote and support black, indigenous and people of color (BIPOC), women and queer producers. “Our approach is to highlight products that are delicious, high quality and produced by underrepresented talent as much as possible,” Jessica Moncada-Konte explains.

It took the Geen family six years, nine months, and three days to get their license to grow cannabis outdoors over 60 acres of their Rock Creek farm. “This is agriculture. I’ve grown ginseng and cherries in this exact spot, and this is no different,” says Marc Geen.

Among the entrepreneurs—often women—that Michelle Mouracade has supported through her work in Lebanon for Alfanar, a venture philanthropy organization, are a generational refugee who started a catering business, and a serial founder who launched a coding bootcamp and an employment service agency. “Our social entrepreneurs are marking true leadership,” she says.

Rapper Killer Mike is teaming up with Bounce TV founder Ryan Glover to launch Greenwood, a banking service aiming at providing an accessible way to support Black-owned banks and businesses—the platform’s name, of course, is a homage to the Greenwood District, the so-called Black Wall Street targeted in the 1921 Tulsa massacre.

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health captured a microscopic view of the lymphatic system of a zebrafish. Not only did the arresting image win them an award, it also opens up new possibilities for research into human brain conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.

Do you miss exploring new places? Let these 10 award-worthy travel photos deemed to be “capturing life in its most vivid forms” take you on a journey across the globe.