The domino effect of anguish and loss unmoors, but a Black poet-anthropologist carries their joy as ritual—in the palms of their hands, soft, delicate.

An anthropologist-poet of the African diaspora holds close family lessons on identity, freedom, and relationship in the midst of an anti-Black society.

A poet-anthropologist of the African diaspora gives voice to the power of collective memory and place.

A poet-anthropologist of the African diaspora travels from a northern city to his ancestral home in the rural U.S. South—both as a memory and a belonging.

People often find it difficult to dispose of everyday objects after a loved one’s death. Similar feelings may explain items buried in the walls of Iron Age homes.

As another college football season begins, an anthropologist explores how Black athletes navigate racism by caring for one another on and off the gridiron.

An anthropologist explores whether the qualities fathers acquire though caregiving shifts their understandings of manhood.

A poet-anthropologist from Nigeria recollects the symbolic power of Ethiopia in the time before his country’s independence from Britain in 1960.

An anthropological assessment of the differences between pills and injections may shed some light on vaccine hesitancy.

When the unthinkable happens, how do we even speak? A poet-anthropologist finds a way through a poem written during his infant son’s chemotherapy treatments, caught in the haunting terrain between hope and despair.