Matt Schaff

A struggling black college grad wakes up to find that reparations have finally been paid to descendants of slaves in America. With this new found capital, they will decide how best to spend their reparations, totaling a mere $16,000. Receiving reparations opens up old wounds of slavery, Jim Crow, and systematic oppression.

Mario Salcedo took his first cruise almost twenty years ago-and never stopped.

Even as designers embrace a more diverse runway, for models of every shape and size, body acceptance is a long and winding road.