By Quentin Lucas A few years ago, I struggled through a date at an art museum, admiring, but mostly just trying to understand, the pieces comprising a feminist exhibit. The woman I was with, much more educated about the subject…
By Darnell L. Moore Art is a tool necessary for new world creating and self-remaking. When conjured in the imaginative expanse of the black creative mind, art has the capacity to transgress: Art can move us toward black queer futures…
By Hari Ziyad “When you walk through the door, what does one see?” I have always found this a fascinating question for multiple reasons: first, it assumes people are present in every room to “see” and that those people all…
Since her mysterious death inside a jail cell on July 13th, 3 days following her arrest after being pulled over for failing to signal before changing lanes, activists have set the internet ablaze demanding to know #WhatHappenedToSandraBland. But “what happened…
by janaya khan Black people everywhere are fighting against the realities of anti-Black racism and genocide. As of 2015, every 28 hours a Black person is killed in the US by a police officer, security guard or gun-wielding vigilante. On…
by Maurice Tracy I. To be young, gifted and Black/ Oh what a lovely precious dream/to be young, gifted and Black The scariest moment for a Black person living in this country is when you realize that there is no space…
1. White folks quoting MLK. 2. Folks thinking they are an expert on race and racism because they watched Roots once. And not even the whole thing because they thought it was too long. 3. Not knowing what happened to…
