Category: City Life
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How One Black Family Has Held Onto Their Land for Generations
In Gallion, Alabama, an 87-year-old farmer and his family carry forward a story of sovereignty, soil, and survival It is early in the planting season for Elister Charleston and his family. And, as he has come to know in his eighty years of farming, before the faithful sun breaks into the sky, before he gets…
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With curiosity, confidence, homeless as a child, he’s poised to enter the Ivy League.
As he prepares for the arduous journey of college, Steven Vaughn-Lewis is humbled by thoughts of what if? What if his grandma hadn’t taken him out of foster care? What if he hadn’t been guided to his top high school? What if he didn’t collide with a series of mentors? “I don’t know where I’d…
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