EditorialTeffany Akins, who has one daughter in kindergarten and another in 4th grade, at home in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Jan. 6, 2022. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialKelly Akins, 41, an account manager at a software company, from Norman, Okla., at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Jan. 31, 2020. (Justin T. Gellerson/The New York Times)