But this case is a special challenge
by photographer Thandiwe Muriu
training and hiring young people of color
eminent black historian Nell Irvin Painter goes beyond the myths
she offers specific tools
The House of Being Binding:Hardcover But this case is aIn a shotgun house in Gulfport, Mississippi, at the crossroads of Highway 49, the legendary highway of the Blues, and Jefferson Street, Natasha Trethewey learned to read and write. Before the land was a crossroads, however, it was a pasture: a farming settlement where, after the Civil War, a group of formerly enslaved women, men, and children made a new home. In this intimate and searching meditation, Trethewey revisits the geography of her childhood