EditorialOdin SmallCarter, left, and DeMarcus Carter, who has co-parented Odin since she was 2, packing their car for a road trip to Minneapolis, where Odin was scheduled for a medical appointment, in Fort Dodge, Iowa on June 5, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialOdin SmallCarter, left, and DeMarcus Carter, who has co-parented Odin since she was 2, packing their car for a road trip to Minneapolis, where Odin was scheduled for a medical appointment, in Fort Dodge, Iowa on June 5, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialOdin SmallCarter, left, and DeMarcus Carter, who has co-parented Odin since she was 2, packing their car for a road trip to Minneapolis, where Odin was scheduled for a medical appointment, in Fort Dodge, Iowa on June 5, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialCo-founder James Blocker at Valley Pride, one of the state?s biggest exporters of almonds, in Madera, Calif., on April 6, 2022. (Rozette Rago/The New York Times)
EditorialRick Blocker, who helped found the Black Surfing Association in 1974, at a beach in Los Angeles, July 18, 2021. (Joshua Kissi/The New York Times)