Summertime
Special Issue featuring Black voices
“Buyer’s Brunch”
Cover art by Camryn Casey
A note from issue editor Tyrese Coleman
The simple truth is that summer is just different for Black folx.
Summertime is nostalgia stirred in with your aunt’s potato salad, the only person allowed to make potato salad at the family get-together. It is the whirl of goosebumps that prickle your arms when you hear that first siren note of Roy Ayers’ “Everybody Loves the Sunshine.” It is our skin, brilliant against the sun, as if lit from within. The summertime feels like our time. Freedom. And yet…
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MEMOIR
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