Ta-Nehisi Coates’ We Were Eight Years in Power, a book about Barack Obama’s presidency and the tenacity of white supremacy, has captured the attention of many of us.
Read MoreSteve Biko, in an article titled “Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity” that was published in the newsletter of the South African Student Association, spoke of the economic origins of his country’s racial caste system
Read MoreGuess and Check is not an ordinary memoir; instead, it is a creative look at the life of a biracial boy—later seen as a young man—who adjusts with difficulty to lessons learned from the behavior of his parents and the people around him.
Read MoreCheck this out folks! David Moscovich of Loofa Press honored Steve with these broadsides created with the blind guys words.
Read MoreMid June, 2015, The Fellow Travellers Series published a wonderful and wonderfully queer novel equally as queer in its style and offerings as its title: Two Augusts in a Row in a Row.
Read MoreYour brilliant, hot, heroic kind of love.
I have enough on my hands,
married to just one man,
and now Mariposa
is marrying her homeland.
Despair has replaced hope in America. Which doesn’t mean activists are sackcloth-and-ashing it, but those who work for equity are discouraged. “American dream”?
Read MoreIn 1997, I joined the production team of Charlie Rose’s popular interview show. I was the only black journalist on staff. At the time, there was little to no recognition of what it meant to be black and female in a workplace dominated by white men. Twenty years later, in this watershed moment of examination and reckoning as one powerful white man after another is disgraced following allegations of sexual misconduct ranging from harassment to assault, we’re still not talking about the ramifications for black women—or the broader connection to structural racism in America.
Read MoreTo the holiday season moviegoer anxiously anticipating the chance to find out what
the buzz surrounding the new Pixar film “Coco” is all about, I implore you: stick it
out.
It's the end of the American Continent!
Read MoreNot bad, eh? A Nick Cave Exhibit and three totally useless but staggering testaments to human cruelty
Read MorePixel-esque day and night on the coast at Fort Lauderdale
Read MoreWeike Wang’s breakthrough 2017 novel Chemistry is centered on a female protagonist who has dedicated her life, up until now, to science.
Read MoreFaith (the substance of things Hoped for)
should flow like a river
anticipating a breeze