Michelle Duster writes a children’s book about her great-grandmother, Ida B. Wells
…first lines. Illustrator Laura Freeman depicts a photo album on this opening spread and, throughout the book, captures pivotal moments in Wells’ life. Before we even read about her birth,…
Anthony Ray Hinton’s The Sun Does Shine comes to young readers
…a commanding and often charismatic curiosity, chronicling aloud in court, for instance, their crushingly bad decisions (“You people don’t want the truth. … All you wanted was a conviction.”), as…
Critic and author Teju Cole thinks about photography and politics
…this earth had acquired its color from the blood that had dripped down from these trees.” He also relates a story from The Selma Times-Journal about a stolen parade costume:…
