EditorialEmily Meggett on Edisto Island, S.C., where she traced her lineage back to enslaved Africans who worked the plantations along the coastal South, April 29, 2022. (Nora Williams/The New York Times)
EditorialEmily Meggett on Edisto Island, S.C., where she traced her lineage back to enslaved Africans who worked the plantations along the coastal South, April 29, 2022. (Nora Williams/The New York Times)
EditorialSes’fikile, one of the wines available at the Wine Arc, a tasting room devoted to Black-owned brands in Stellenbosch, South Africa, Feb. 10, 2023. (Samantha Reinders/The New York Times)
EditorialChina / Africa: Tile tableau depicting several Chinese merchants and noblemen who appear to have made themselves at home in an African village, c. 1700
EditorialDoreen Oport, who was injured when a truck bomb tore through the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, on Aug. 7, 1998, at a nature park in Mansfield, Texas, June 18, 2020. (Nitashia Johnson/The New York Times)