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Barry Yeoman

Barry Yeoman is a freelance journalist living in Durham, North Carolina. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, The Nation, and National Wildlife, among other publications.

Protestors holding signs that read “BLACK LIVES MATTER,” “LOVE ALWAYS WINS,” and “WE COME IN LOVE & PEACE BUT NOT IN SILENCE” flock around a Confederate statue. An intensely saturated, Pop Art-style photograph of a flower is superimposed above the statue, as well as a photograph of a black power fist.

Battle Hymns of the Old South

Before he rounded the corner into downtown Graham, North Carolina, the Reverend Gregory Drumwright hushed the hundreds of marchers who had gathered on a steamy July day. He lifted his microphone and offered a morsel of history, some sustenance for the final stretch of the ...
Pills tumble from an open blue hand down the throat of a figure painted red.

Stammer Time

November 4, 2019
The lights dimmed in the hotel ballroom. Several hundred people, including myself, waited for the surprise announcement. We were in Baltimore in 2015 for the annual convention of the National Stuttering Association (NSA). It was an emotional weekend, as it always is when ...