Sons

West Ford’s descendants want to prove his parentage—and save the freedmen’s village he founded.

Brian Bouillon-Baker—one of the twelve children of the St. Louis-born entertainer, French Resistance fighter, and destroyer of stereotypes—visits France’s hall of “great men” for the induction of his Maman, the first woman of color to be so honored.

Wolfgang Van Halen, the front man of Mammoth WVH and the son of Eddie Van Halen, pays a visit, in between stadium shows with Guns N’ Roses, to his happy place: the Friends Experience, in Gramercy Park.

A documentary short explores the lessons being passed from fathers to sons at a California shooting range.

After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.

“Someday, this all will be yours.”

The reclusive director of “Days of Heaven” helped make “Everybody’s Everything,” a film about the late emo rapper, whose grandfather, the historian John Womack, Jr., is an old Harvard friend.

After leaving the family empire, Rupert Murdoch’s son is investing in comics, championing Pete Buttigieg, and fighting threats to democracy that sound an awful lot like Fox News.

Joe Biden’s son is under scrutiny for his business dealings and tumultuous personal life.

The novelist Rumaan Alam and the photographer David Land are unloading twenty-two amateur paintings of the first President.

The craze for the third-person shooter game has elements of Beatlemania, the opioid crisis, and eating Tide Pods.

Fatherly, a platform for dads, threw a brunch to talk about men in the age of #MeToo.

A father, a son, and their secret superpowers.

My wife was bombarded with automated calls from our son’s school—would she volunteer for the vegetable share, the bake sale, the harvest festival? My phone never buzzed once.

No camera is sensitive enough to record the uncanny speed at which a child grows and transforms. It spools up time, but it can’t stop it.