Photographs by Gerald Forster for Newsweek. Interviews by Sarah Kliff.
The U.S. Census now considers Bronx County, N.Y., to be the most diverse area in the country. Choose any two residents at random and there's an 89.7 percent chance that they'll be of different races or ethnicities. Over two days in early January, photographer Gerald Forster took these portraits to illustrate what that kind of diversity looks like. Subjects ranged in age from 17 to 87. There were African-Americans, Asians, Latinos and whites. All are proudly American.
