Celebrate 30 years of the OA.

With original work from Imani Perry, Kristen Arnett, Diane Roberts, and so many others, our Spring Issue honors our past and looks into our expansive future.

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Issue 112, Spring 2021

With contributions from Cynthia Greenlee, Crystal Wilkinson, Channing Gerard Joseph, and many others, this special edition is really something to savor. Alice Randall, the New York Times best-selling novelist, award-winning songwriter, educator, food activist, and cookbook author, guest edits the issue, one that centers, “the Southern kitchen in the African diaspora, and in conversation with other arts—for in the African-American experience cooking in the South has long been both an expressive and global practice.”