EditorialAn attendee during a cookout with politicians and grassroots activists at Davidson County Republican Women’s Club in Winston-Salem, N.C., on July 16, 2022. (Travis Dove/The New York Times)
EditorialWillis Spells tends a wood fire at a cookout where a hog was to be slaughtered, at Peculiar Pig Farms in Ridgeville, S.C., Feb. 12, 2022. (Clay Williams/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople cookout near George Floyd Square in Minneapolis on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, after former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd while in police custody last year. (Aaron Nesheim/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Rev. Jesse Jackson bumps fists with a supporter of Jacob Blake during a cookout and rally on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, near the site where Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wis. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialEvidence markers in the street outside of Raymond Bush Playground in Brooklyn, on Monday, July 13, 2020. (Demetrius Freeman/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers help celebrate Juneteenth at the Juneteenth cookout at Phelps Field Park in Minneapolis, on Friday, June 19, 2020. (Andrea Ellen Reed/The New York Times)