tenderly

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Tenderly, Burns imagines her grandfather, part of the Windrush generation, being summoned back to heaven by God, the reward for a life well lived.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025

In his 2022 photo series, “Night Coming Tenderly, Black,” photographer Dawoud Bey reimagines the path of enslaved people escaping along the Underground Railroad.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2023

For last, I saved perhaps my favorite part of the exhibition, and the part that Bey said, if pressed to choose just one, continues to draw him in: “Night Coming Tenderly, Black.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2022

Tenderly devoted to the prize horse first known as Darley, he also tangles warily with Cassius Marcellus Clay, the hotheaded, philandering abolitionist and one of Clay’s daughters, Mary Barr.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2022

Tenderly he buckled the crupper, and the horse edged around to try to kick him.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck