Photo caption Portrait of Fannie Lou Hamer by Louis Draper for Essence magazine. —Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, 1971, Louis Draper, National Endowment for the Arts Fund for American Art © Louis H. Draper Preservation Trust, Nell D. Winston, trustee Winter 2021 Volume 42, Issue 1 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue What Zora Went Looking For As a budding anthropologist, the storyteller began to find her way Charles King The 1921 Tulsa Massacre What Happened to Black Wall Street Kweku Larry Crowe Thabiti Lewis Rereading Darkwater W.E.B. DuBois 100 years ago Chad Williams Why Maya Angelou Partnered with Hallmark For one thing, she liked a challenge Ayesha K. Hardison Aspiring Artists Amy Lifson William Lanson Shaped New Haven Connecticut Stacey Close Executive Function with New Mexico’s Brandon Johnson Peter BG Shoemaker Recent NEH Grants NEH Staff Editor's Note David Skinner Black on Black: Louis Draper Made His Subjects Visible Erina Duganne
What Zora Went Looking For As a budding anthropologist, the storyteller began to find her way Charles King