Photo essays, feature photography & visual storytelling from MSNBC.com

February 20, 2015

Sayad Mustafa/EPA   This Week in Pictures: Feb. 14-20 2/17/15 05:14PM New York Fashion Week and the Westminster Dog Show offered some much needed levity during a week that continued to bring heavy news from around the world.

Photo by Wayne Lawrence for MSNBC   The faces of Rio de Janeiro's Carnival 2/16/15 01:53PM Tens of thousands of people are packing the streets of Brazil, reveling for five days in dancing, celebrating, pageantry, and dazzling costumes.

Photo by AP   50 years after Malcolm X, civil rights icon remains divisive 2/19/15 10:33AM Fifty years after his assassination, Malcolm X and his black nationalist vision have assumed a unique and controversial place in our civil rights history.

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