[spreaker type=standard width=100% autoplay=false episode_id=7951704] Beyond Flint, what are some environmental issues that I should care about? On Season 1, Episode 2 we are joined by Aaron Mair, the first …
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S1E1: Who are the Gullah/Geechee People? EJ in Rural Areas
[spreaker type=standard width=100% autoplay=false episode_id=7900508] If God is willing and the creek don’t rise. But what if it does? Enjoy #7on7 Season 1, where we discuss the environment and environmental …
Who’s Responsible for Mass Incarceration?
Two major articles by criminal justice experts last week roundly criticized Hillary Clinton for her support of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. Both pieces are …
Reclaiming King: Five Speeches (That Aren’t the Dream Speech)
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The First Year without Tamir
Tamir Rice is not a martyr. He did not die, one year ago, as another noble name on a list of noble names. While the year after his death …
Phantoms Playing Double-Dutch: Why the Fight for Dyett is Bigger than One Chicago School Closing
“Cause everybody dies in the summer / Wanna say your goodbyes, tell ‘em while it’s spring / I heard everybody’s dying in the summer So pray to God for a …
On Charleston: Letters from the Scribes Pt. 2
[nextpage title=”Two” ] In the Shadow of the Flag – fivefifths Long drives down Carolina state roads through dusty main streets straight out of the 1950s and miles and miles …
On Charleston: Letters from the Scribes Pt. 1
[nextpage title=”Two” ] We Lean Towards Joy-Josie Helen My soul lives below the Mason-Dixon line. I was born on Georgia soil, and, God willing, will die there. There is …
The Debt
The noose was fitted from birth. This one, the power cord of an air conditioning unit. Plastic and wires replaced the hard hemp knot, but the end result still …
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 …