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Chores

On a solo backpacking trip, in a desert military base, at a church revival

A Thousand Words

A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.

Tents

On a solo backpacking trip, in a desert military base, at a church revival

A Thousand Words

A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.

Crossroads

Imani Perry on the South’s Vital Place in America’s Identity

The South is made to carry the nation’s slop jar. That’s deliberate, because then the United States doesn’t have to actually contend with all of its violence. We just put the blame on that region where bad stuff happens and where those backward people are. I don’t think it’s incidental, either, that it is the Blackest region culturally (and demographically) speaking. So it is at once seen as the most racist and the Blackest.

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Sunbeams

I’m not sure which matters more—where the seed comes from, or where it takes root and grows.

Zetta Elliott, A Wish After Midnight

A Thousand Words

A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.

To the Arresting Officer

You patted me down roughly, went through my pockets and pulled out three crumpled twenties, some guitar picks, my stepfather’s pocketknife. “You got drugs, son?”

Walking Out

A peach-pickers’ strike, a crisis of faith, a paralyzing accident