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A Name That Carries More Than History I think of Julia Laurette Randall as a rare kind of figure in public life, someone born with a spotlight already warm on…

A childhood lived in the glow of cameras and the hush of home I find Paul Vuk George interesting because his story is not just about being the child of…

A Name That Carries More Than One Role I think the most interesting thing about Loreili Hutch is not that she appears in public, but that she manages to do…

A child whose life is known in fragments I have always found the story of Jupiter Seaborn Sheeran compelling not because it is loud, but because it is almost the…

The classroom as a rehearsal room I have long believed that the best legal training happens where theory collides with the messy reality of contracts. In Mary Lee Ryan’s classroom…

A different kind of spotlight I have always been drawn to the people who keep the lights on while others perform under them. Steve Gullion is one such person. His…

A presence you felt in small things I have always been drawn to people whose lives read like margins of a larger story. Brenda Lorraine Gee lived in those margins…

The small, strange permission of finishing someone else’s sentences I have long been fascinated by the moral choreography required when a living person finishes the work of the dead. Karen…

A family in frames I have tracked celebrity lineages before, but Josephine Archer Cameron feels different. She is present on the edges of public narratives, a character who appears in…

A quiet turning of the page I remember the first time I heard her name in a family anecdote and felt a small tug, like a guitar string tuned by…