Glass Float Project / Block Island - Outside Magazine






















Kamala Harris - WGBH






















Ibram X. Kendi - TIME 100
























Henry Louis Gates Jr. - LA Times
























Amiri Nash - New York Times


















Prof. Emily Oster - Vox




















Soil Erosion on Cape Cod - New York Times






















Cora Dvorkin - Quanta Magazine



















Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist - Bloomberg Businessweek


















The Inkwell, as one of Martha’s Vineyard’s famed beaches is known, stretches hardly 100 yards between jetties on the north shore of the island. To see it, it amounts to just a sliver of sand, but on a sunny day, the sea is vast and the precise color of jade, beckoning swimmers whose families have descended on the island in the summertime for generations.

Since the 1800s, Martha’s Vineyard (and the Inkwell) has been a renowned getaway for these Black families. The elite mingle with middle-class families on the island: Former President Barack Obama is rumored to have celebrated his birthday this month in his seven-bedroom mansion on Martha’s Vineyard. The island’s regulars over the years have included Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the late Vernon Jordan; Maya Angelou once described the town of Oak Bluffs, which includes Inkwell Beach, as “a safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”




Inkwell beach - VOX