Clifford Thompson’s books include What It Is: Race, Family,and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues. A painter, he is a member of Blue Mountain Gallery in New York.
The mangling of American history has served to reinforce racism at the most fundamental level: through the stories and ideas we have passed on to our children.
Jamel Shabazz photographs a collective portrait of New York, documenting the varying degrees of humility that life in the city forces most of us to adopt.
