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Toni Scott ( toniscott.com ) African Roots—Human Beginnings, Conceptions of Race by Toni Scott. Hydrostone and wood. More

No Haiti No Orleans by Michael Massenburg. In his work, Massenburg explores issues class, race and culture “in an attempt to engage the subjects through representational, psychological, and spiritual perspectives.” More

Jeff Gomez ( jeff-gomez.com ) As a Jewish participant in hip-hop culture, Kevin Coval “has forthrightly tackled issues of race, place, and responsibility,” the author writes. More

Library of Congress/John Vachon “I grew up as the child of a white activist in the Civil Rights Movement,” Greenberg writes. “At that time, to sit with people of different races was a radical act in the South.” More

National Domestic Workers Alliance Organizers affiliated with the National Domestic Worker’s Alliance meet in Washington, D.C. “We built a winning coalition that crossed lines of race, class, gender, and age,” Poo writes. More

Creative Commons/chicagogeek “My Woodlawn-Roseland neighborhood has suffered a re-entrenchment of race-based poverty over the last two decades,” Sundquist writes. Here, a woman carries a child past the half-demolished remains of an old department store in Roseland. More

María María Acha-Kutscher ( acha-kutscher.com ) “The effects of the New Left on American society and culture have been almost incalculable,” Zaretsky writes. “An entirely new consciousness of race, gender, and sexuality has transformed language, lifestyle, and institutions.” Illustration by María More

Heather Wilson (PICO National Network) “I’ve started organizing with imams, priests, and rabbis from PICO (People Improving Communities through Organizing) who are reaching across lines of race, class, gender, and geography nationwide,” the author writes. Here, PICO members meet for a June 2013 More