Starting in December 2018, I followed a guaranteed income experiment in Jackson, Mississippi, that gave $1,000 a month to 20 Black single mothers for a year. My feature on the pilot, called Magnolia Mother’s Trust, appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of Marie Claire. There wasn’t room in the magazine…

The Lila Thai massage chain is staffed entirely with former convicts. Is the experiment working?

“Aid work requires wildly ferocious self-care, not just outside of work but throughout the day. You are your only refuge.”

“If journalists don’t have access to communities or story ideas, they start producing the same old stereotypes.”

I recently came across a grainy photo of myself from a Habitat for Humanity trip to El Salvador nine years ago. I’m grinning in a plastic…