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The Guardian

"THE GULLAH GEECHEE FIGHT FOR A LEGACY AFTER SLAVERY"

The Guardian
The New York Times

In Majority-Black New Orleans, Chefs Are Rewriting ‘Whitewashed’ History

The New York Times
The New York Times

Black Entrepreneurs on The Fence

The New York Times
Vanity Fair

What the 2024 Election Looks Like in 7 Battleground States

Vanity Fair
The Cut/NY Mag

What The Women Counting Your Votes Today are Thinking

The Cut/NY Mag
NBC News

They used chemical hair straighteners, then lost the ability to have children

NBC News
Christianity Today

Generations After Slavery, Georgia Neighbors Find Freedom and Repair in Christ

Christianity Today
Bloomberg Businessweek

Why Dollar General Just Might Be The Worst Retail Job in America

Bloomberg Businessweek
Atlanta Magazine

These Streets and The Stories They Tell

Atlanta Magazine
Bloomberg Businessweek

IVF Patients Are Trapped in Limbo and Bracing for the Next Post-Roe Fight

Bloomberg Businessweek
Financial Times

Mashama Bailey is The Most Important Chef in America

Financial Times
Bloomberg Businessweek

How Generations of Black Americans Lost Their Land to Tax Liens

Bloomberg Businessweek
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Paid protesters, free lunches and backroom chats: Inside the menthol lobbying machine

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Black man sitting in Oldsmobile holding cigarette

Everyday Atlanta (Ongoing)

Amtrak Conductor for "The Crescent" arriving from West Virginia in Atlanta, GA October 2024

Amtrak Tales

A trip to New York brought me to the beautiful neighborhood of Cypress Hills in East New York.

East New York (Cypress Hills area)

DeRay standing outside with his daughters dogs.

A Man's Theory

Thanksgiving day years ago in Logtown, GA captured by my mother on her Polaroid camera.

My Mother's Archive