By Jasmine Banks Imagine someone who has dedicated their life work to calling out the violence of corporal punishment in the Black community. Imagine that they, as a former foster youth, redeems their experiences with child abuse into award-winning writing…
By Jarune Uwujaren This question, y’all. This question. It’s always on the tip of someone’s tongue––when a Jessie Williams leaves his Black wife for a white girl, or a Serena Williams marries a white dude, or an Unidentified Williams who’s…
By Deanna Adams Shortly after Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me was released to critical acclaim, I moderated a book discussion about it. During the talk, a self-proclaimed fearless Black man asked an engineer in the room, “What do…
By Aja Barber There is no dog that I hate. I love most dogs. There are no bad dogs, only bad owners. And there’s a dog owner I loathe. She’s a neighbor; a white woman whose outrageous behavior and rule-breaking…
Academia and American educational institutions are and have been colonial projects.
By Kevin C. Quin Misogyny and mass media are no stranger to one another. Over the past few months, we have witnessed countless instances where men assert their often unsolicited, disparaging comments about women to millions of viewers across various…
By Lauren Roshan The Black community has a history of politicising our art. The Black Arts Movement of 1965 began as a Black American literary offspring of the the Civil Rights Movement, and, though short-lived, it made significant impact on…
By Ashley Denay (We gonna show ya'll the meaning of black love) When he havin' a bad day I fill up the bathtub (She put on the oven mitt, be cooking up mad grub) Got beef with a nigga, put…
By Kadeem Fuller Last week we discovered that Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak twice while working with the Trump campaign last year. The private meetings between the two are a direct contradiction to the statement…
By Arielle Iniko Newton Two years ago, I was a part of an organizing collective that sought to combine the talents and experiences of community organizers involved in racial, environmental, and class justice struggles. We recognized that our movements overlapped…
