Singles Over 100 years old, Pine Knot Farms in Hurdle Mills, NC, is a black owned and operated farm by Stanley Hughes. He is known as one of the first in the state to grow certified organic tobacco. Bryan Anderson, pictured, is a third generation farmer. He pushes packed tobacco into a crate at Pine Knot Farms. “Make sure you tell them sharecropping is still alive”. Connie Campbell is comforted by her niece, Brittani Wallace, during the sentencing of Marquice Anderson on Tuesday July 28, 2015 in Clearwater, FL. Anderson was the driver in the fiery hit-and-run crash that killed Campbell’s nieces, Grace Collier, 25, Briana Campbell, 23, and Jame’sia Lang, 21, in 2014. Anderson was sentenced to 35 years with 15 years probation on July 28, 2015. Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White sits on stage, listening to Gov. Pat Quinn, during the ceremony to legalize same-sex marriage in Illinois on November 20, 2013 at the University of Illinois Chicago Forum. A woman cries during Sunday service at Friendship Baptist Church in Jeffersonville, NY. She feverishly repeats, “forgive me, forgive me, I’m sorry.” On June 26, 2014, three of Cora Campbell’s family members were killed by a hit-and-run driver. They were her daughter, Briana Campbell, niece, Jame’sia Lang, and sister, Grace Collier. Cora took in her three grandchildren: Zy’aire, 4, Zy’asia, 4, and Damaris, 2. “Without them, me personally, I wouldn’t know how to deal with the situation.” A year later, after running around inside their home with bed sheets as capes, the children move to the porch where the heat and sun created a sudden moment of silence, each lost in their own childlike world. Cora fixes her granddaughter Zy’asia’s hair, left, with her two grandsons Damaris, center, and Zy’aire, right, on the porch of their home in Gulfport, FL.
