{"product_id":"issue-005-friends-and-family-ms-lauryn-hill","title":"ISSUE 005: FRIENDS AND FAMILY, MS. LAURYN HILL","description":"\u003cp\u003eON THE COVER:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLauryn Hill \u003c\/span\u003ephotographed by \u003cspan\u003eJessica Madavo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwenty-eight years prior to the release of this issue, on August 19, 1998, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” was released by a 23-year-old Lauryn Hill, shattering industry expectations. The album sold 422,000 copies in its first week—at the time, the highest single-week sales figure ever registered by a woman in the SoundScan era. The following year, Ms. Hill walked away with five Grammys, including Album of the Year—making her the first hip-hop artist to win the Recording Academy’s highest honor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith the release of “The Miseducation”, the young star, Black and beyond beautiful, offered a timely sermon and message to a generation of young Black people attempting to reckon with questions of how to live. She also gave a generation of young Black women an alternative way of seeing themselves–valuable and complex–in direct opposition to the images of Black women popularized by other hip-hop artists of the late 1990s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlmost three decades after the release of “The Miseducation,” Ms. Hill, now a grandmother, seems to be stepping back into the spotlight at another cultural inflection point, still armed with a message of conscience and connectedness. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor the cover of this issue\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e—wanting to be on the continent leading up to the revival of her Diaspora Rising! music festival, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Ms. Hill took us to Casablanca, where photographer Jessica Madavo captured her as she wanted to be seen–in control of her image and her\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e message.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInside the magazine, Ms. Hill offers an open letter exploring her vision and message, and our editorial director offers an editor's note tracing Ms. Hill's impact and contextualizing the star as a person.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso featured in this issue:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAndre D. Wagner, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBecky Akinyode, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCheryl Clarke, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDarnell Moore, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDon Brodie, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJawara Wauchope, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJessica Madavo, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKennedi Carter, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKokoroko, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePolo Silk, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRafael Rios, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRahim Fortune, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRemi Ajani, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRobert Franklin, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRobin Givhan, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRonan McKenzie, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTayari Jones and more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIssue 005, the Friends and Family issue, explores what it means to look to those around us as the answer to how we elevate ourselves through the most trying of times. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen all seems to be falling around us, and we feel powerless to the forces swirling \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003earound our heads, we retreat to our most sacred spaces, holding on to those with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhom we share our most intimate bonds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese same people do not only occupy space with us in the dark, but they sustain us in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the light. They stand by us at our best, pushing us forward and celebrating our \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewins.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe possibilities for what we can do and bear are boundless when we \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehave our friends and family by our side.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Issue 005, we turn our gaze away from the individual and toward the collective, k\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enowing that it is in “community”, among our friends and family, that we can access \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethat well of power needed to meet the moment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Citizen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51486416503030,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0658\/3222\/2966\/files\/Citizen_005_covers_4x5_MLH_01.jpg?v=1787112274","url":"https:\/\/shop.citizen-magazine.com\/products\/issue-005-friends-and-family-ms-lauryn-hill","provider":"Citizen","version":"1.0","type":"link"}