The more I looked at barbecue, I thought: It’s really its own thing. Q: The focus of the book is African American barbecue, but it also feels like the history of barbecue, period.

A native of Beaumont, J.C. Reid graduated from the University of Southern California after studying architecture and spent his early career as an architect in New York City. He returned to Texas ...

The result of Huang's work was 500 published photos of the family — and the barbershop that she had come to call her home — for her project Strands of Love.