Here’s a story (about a story) for you: Every editor at The Conversation puts the finishing touches on the stories they’ve edited by adding photos and captions and a headline. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been editing a story by Armon Perry, a scholar of social work. His point, and the subject of his new book, is that the media and even academia focus almost exclusively on the idea that many Black men reject monogamy and are not viable marriage mates because their financial struggles will not allow them to provide for a wife and children. He has countered those images with a study of more diverse Black men who, Perry writes in his story this week, “opened up about their desire for intimacy and companionship in their relationships.”

His book’s title: “Black Love Matters.”

But here’s what happened when I went looking for photos of Black men and their wives and children to illustrate the story: they were hard to find. Bingo – a completely unscientific, but still notable, confirmation of Perry’s thesis that popular culture doesn’t pay adequate attention to these men’s lives.