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African American families

Opportunity Cost

by Mitchell S. Jackson,

From Survival Math, which will be published in March by Scribner. Jackson is an associate professor of writing at New York University and the author of The Residue Years. He…

Family History

by Zora Neale Hurston,

By Zora Neale Hurston, from Barracoon, a previously unpublished ethnography based on interviews that she conducted with eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis in Alabama in 1927 and 1928. Lewis was then the…

The Missing

From advertisements taken out in African-American newspapers by former slaves searching for relatives. The earliest ads appeared in 1863. Villanova University and Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Philadelphia,…

Leaving the folk

by Phillip Richards,

The journey out of a Cleveland childhood

Life with Father

by Itabari Njeri,

Mitigating circumstances

by Harper’s Staff,

Enough names to go round

by Harper’s Staff,

Didn’t know him

by Harper’s Staff,

What did she mean?

by Harper’s Staff,

His method

by Harper’s Staff,

A Christmas dilemma

Drawn by Peter Newell,