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Agenda

THE PYROMANCER’S DREAM

BEHIND THE ISSUE

LIVING MEMORY • To create Breonna Taylor’s portrait after her death, Amy Sherald conjured details and stories from the young woman’s life

Contributors

VANITIES • VANITAS VANITATUM

A Winning VISION • CHRISTOPHER JOHN ROGERS—the 2019 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winner worn by Michelle Obama and Tracee Ellis Ross—is ready for an industry reckoning

Autumn DELIGHTS • A new art book borrows the words of Nina Simone—“young, gifted, and Black”—for its title. Other of fall’s most beautiful objets, from Black creators, epitomize the idea

Behind the IMAGE • Hairstylist LACY REDWAY, a Hollywood favorite, shares her inspirations and offers a bid for top-down change

The Power of TWO • R&B duo CHLOE X HALLE on their new album, their activism, and advice from Beyoncé

A New MUSEUM • As the art world experiences renewed scrutiny, curators, administrators, and artists imagine templates for change

Smooth OPERATOR

Gone’s TOMORROW • Screenwriter GESHA-MARIE BLAND annotates a page from Selznick’s Folly, her fictionalized homage to Hattie McDaniel

Uptown, Minneapolis, JUNE 2020

THE GREAT FIRE • …WE WILL WATCH FROM THE STONE TOWER AND WE WI LL WAIT FOR IT TO FINISH AND WE CAN WAIT A LONG TIME AND THE FIRE CAN TOO.

A BEAUTIFUL LIFE • In a series of interviews, TAMIKA PALMER tells the story of her own life, her daughter’s life, and the night Breonna Taylor was murdered

YOU SAID HOPE • The BLACK LIVES MATTER movement has produced a global outcry for social justice. And as with any profound shift in society’s priorities, the movement’s foundation was laid by prescient cultural change-makers. Celebrated on these pages are a few of today’s visionaries, artists, and activists who continue to honor the past, shape the future, and energize the present

WITNESS AND RESPAIR

TRUE STORIES ABOUT THE GREAT FIRE • In late May, as video of GEORGE FLOYD’s murder spread across the nation, Americans defied the pandemic and rallied to the streets in what would become the largest protest movement in decades. The story of those early days is told here by those who rose up, those who bore witness, those who grieved, and those who hoped

THE HERALD • Scholar and activist ANGELA DAVIS has spent more than 50 years working for social justice. This summer, society started to catch up

THE GAME • The unpaid stars of the college field have no real power off it—even when their schools are doing them wrong. Something’s gotta give

MISSISSIPPI A POEM, IN DAYS

BLUE BLOODS • POLICE UNIONS are more fraternal brotherhood than labor group—which puts them squarely at odds with solidarity

ABOLITION’S PROMISE • What we talk about when we talk about addressing the SAVAGE ROOTS OF POLICING: justice and safety for everyone

KINDRED SPIRIT • Guyanese-British actor LETITIA WRIGHT, an Emmy nominee for Black Mirror and a standout in Marvel movies, is diving into her country’s complicated, and often buried, racial history with the series Small Axe from director Steve McQueen

KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR • The NBA champ, author, and Emmy nominee on fatherhood, jazz, and vintage cars

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