Seyward Darby

What happens when an adoption fails? The harrowing story of one young boy in Florida.

Trump used her slain daughter to rail against illegal immigration. She chose a different path.

To the larger world, Marlanna “Rapsody” Evans came rushing out of nowhere like a breath of fresh air in a dank field of female MCs, where rumors of butt injections, baby-daddy drama, dis records, Twitter beefs, and Fashion Week fisticuffs too often taint discussions about women’s flow and relevance, where lyricists of substance get labeled […]

In Roma, Texas, a major thoroughfare for illegal immigration on the Texas-Mexico border, encountering Border Patrol agents and the immigrants desperate to evade them is an inescapable part of life. Residents repeatedly face legal and ethical questions: Do you help, and, if so, whom? The immigrants or the Border Patrol? Almost daily, they weigh fear […]

An adventure as the Man Behind the Curtain for memoirs of the uber-rich.

A courageous tribe, a colossal foe, and a terrifying ocean voyage.

In September 2017, a campus police officer shot and killed a queer college student in Atlanta. By the end of the year, several of the student’s friends had been arrested, and two were dead. What happened at Georgia Tech? The story of a tragedy’s aftermath and the debates it sparked—about police brutality, free speech, gender […]

In August 1976, North Korean soldiers stationed in the DMZ hacked two U.S. officers to death with axes. For the next four days, the world teetered on the brink of conflict as Washington plotted revenge—by cutting down a poplar tree.

Seventeen years before the Stonewall Riots, Dale Jennings proclaimed to a California court that he was a homosexual. It was the first glimmer of a civil rights revolution.