From Where They CameIt only took three ballerina like leaps to cross the lawn and reach my grandfathers screen door. He lived with my grandmother in a small house on property shared with my parents in New Jersey. Waiting at the door, he scooped me up like one of the squirming lambs he weighed in the barn. I was 8. On most days, we sat at the kitchen table and spoke Ukrainian. My first request was always to see his famous scar, the one on the right side of his chest

and responds well to push processing

unframed glimpses of life

seen from within

Lawson has been investigating and challenging conventional representations of black identities in the African American and African diaspora for over fifteen years

newly reappropriated body

Families often intermarried

and the joys of sex

the old New Year in the Julian calendar

and for cultivating meaning in an otherwise meaningless reality

the first excavations began in March 1788

Shared offerings to the past manifest in codes hidden in plain sight

1929) was Ghana’s first international press photographer