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The Galveston Giant
April 5th, 1915 The spectators still keep pouring in. The racetrack in sweltering Havana. White Americans and Europeans stream alongside Cuban men in in suits and panama hats as …
A Yogi in the South Side: Reaching Black Youth in Chicago
I had been working for I Grow Chicago, a non-profit organization helping “at-risk” youth revitalize one of the Englewood neighborhood’s many vacant lots by transforming it into an art garden. …
RT if You Believe in Post-Modernism: Twitter and the Alleged Death of Literature
So recently I was in a meeting with the superintendent of a public school district. When asked what issues concern him most as he considers the educational landscape of his …
The Acts of God
The flood started with a flood. Sure, there was a certain wayward trickle of Blackness that found itself absorbed into Ellison’s cans of paint in places like St. Louis and …