As a young Black man in the Deep South, Danny Cherry Jr. had become accustomed to looking away when cruel policies led to violence or death. But two dead refugees at the border changed that.
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The fatal shooting of a baby boy in Aimee Meredith Cox’s Brooklyn neighborhood led her to question growing used to “the relentless repetition of injury and death” that is part of the Black experience in America.
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J.T. Roane grew up in rural Tidewater Virginia. While its landscapes and back roads evoke ghosts of slavery's past, a friend’s death reminds him of the ongoing need to create Black vitality.
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Wanda Dalla Costa set off on a backpacking adventure she thought would last six months. Seven years and over 35 countries later, she discovered her future as an architect and storyteller.
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At 13, Deborah Sussman visited Anne Frank’s house and the concentration camp her father survived. But she’s sought to not let the Holocaust’s overwhelming reality limit her understanding of who her father was.
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Growing up in St. Lucia, Shirley-Ann Augustin-Behravesh felt her dreams were beyond her reach. But after years of hearing doubts, she discovered she could achieve the life she wanted.
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In his classrooms, William Hohenstein changed lives by confronting some of society’s most intractable challenges. But at 80, he wonders whether it was ever possible to change himself.
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In Iran, Pardis Mahdavi spoke out about her work on sexual politics, and her life changed forever. That painful experience and US political violence have led her to rethink what it means to belong.
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