In honor of the MLK Special Issue, The Atlantic commissioned artist and photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier to photograph Chicago, Baltimore, and Memphis from the air-cities that bear MLK's legacy. In her aerial photography, Frazier explains, the specter of oppression is writ large. "The history is written on that landscape and the body of its inhabitants," says Frazier.

"The Notion of Family" by LaToya Ruby Frazier is available online here: http://bit.ly/1kfpabj LaToya Ruby Frazier's "The Notion of Family" (Video) We sat down with LaToya Ruby Frazier to discuss the realization of her first book, The Notion of Family, which offers an incisive exploration of the legacy of racism and economic decline in America's small towns, as embodied by her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania.