Smithsonian's September Issue Explores Being 'Black in America'

Featuring work by Oprah Winfrey, Spike Lee, Isabel Wilkerson, Natasha Trethewey, Jenna Wortham, Touré and more.

Smithsonian magazine’s September issue, coinciding with the Sept. 24 opening of Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, is devoted to examining, as per the issues’s title, what it means to be “Black in America.”

The issue, which hits newsstands Tuesday, comes with one of four different covers, each one an artist or photographer’s meditation on the title idea.

Within its pages, editors have gathered writing from contributors across a spectrum of fields and disciplines.

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