Editorial“Antislavery Medallion,” manufactured by the thousands around 1787 by the enterprising British potter Josiah Wedgwood, in the exhibition “Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, March 7, 2022. (Clark Hodgin/The New York Times)
EditorialJosiah McCruiston, whose character often serves as comic relief, onstage in the production at the Fonseca Theater Company in Indianapolis on May 21, 2021. (Maddie McGarvey/The New York Times)
EditorialJosiah Snow, then 16, pulls up plywood subflooring from his family's home in the Woodland Heights neighborhood of Houston on Aug. 31, 2017, that was damaged during Hurricane Harvey. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times)
EditorialKimberly Curry, 34, who came with her son Josiah, 10, for the viewing of Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) as he lay in state at the Capitol in Washington, July 27, 2020. (Nate Palmer/The New York Times)