The food at the Coleman-Richards reunion in Fayette County, Ky., offers a look at the family’s ties to America and Liberia.
Reporting from Fayette County, Ky.
On a Saturday afternoon last month in Fayette County, Ky., members of the extended Coleman family lined up along a table topped with chafing dishes of white rice, fried chicken wings and dark-green Liberian palava sauce made with stewed spinach. Nearby, a large grill sizzled, hot dogs cooking over its flames. Afrobeats, funk and classic R&B played underneath a tent providing shade from the summer sun. Read more…