A Vietnamese Mardi Gras krewe.
The Black longshoremen of Mobile’s Banana Docks.
A meditation on rice and belonging.
This Food Issue isn’t just about what Southerners eat—it’s about who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going.
Lynell George
About
Lynell George is a Los Angeles–based journalist and essayist. She is the author of three books of nonfiction: No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the City of Angels (Verso), After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame (Angel City Press), and the Hugo Award finalist A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler (Angel City Press). Her liner notes for Otis Redding Live at the Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings won a 2017 Grammy.