This is another inspiring tale
by photographer Thandiwe Muriu
which stretches back into the 19th century
training and hiring young people of color
she offers specific tools
The House of Being Binding:Hardcover This is another inspiring taleIn a shotgun house in Gulfport, Mississippi, at the crossroads of Highway 49, the legendary highway of the Blues, and Jefferson Street, Natasha Trethewey learned to read and write. Before the land was a crossroads, however, it was a pasture: a farming settlement where, after the Civil War, a group of formerly enslaved women, men, and children made a new home. In this intimate and searching meditation, Trethewey revisits the geography of her childhood