“The History that James Baldwin wanted America to See”, my first piece for The New Yorker. It accompanies a sombre and moving essay by Eddie Glaude Jr. about the stories that we’ve told ourselves, the strange fruits borne from them, and the ongoing lineage of Black American thinkers and activists who have always challenged us to confront this history as the fiction that it is.
Rough concepts
Composition development
Final illustration.
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