One day after nine educators were sentenced to prison in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal, standardized testing began across the state of Georgia. I am a graduate of the …
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Sharing the Load: On Supporting Black Women in Protest Times
I just feel like I’m always giving everything to everybody and I’m never getting anything in return! My girlfriend is almost 700 miles away, yelling about her drunk …
The Road to Hell: The Dangers of Volunteer Police and Poverty Tourism
The sick joke was always the same. Maybe it was the one where a white Christian missionary was dismayed to find bustling metropolises in Nairobi, rather than destitute and desolate …
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 …
Low Post-Blackness: Race and the Status of the NBA
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is a big game hunter. His next target? The NFL. As Silver’s first full season as commissioner comes to an end he is undoubtedly still floating …
Notes of a Mortal Man: My Time with To Pimp a Butterfly
I’ve had eleven days since To Pimp a Butterfly came into my life like a marauder past midnight and kept me up until the dawn. Some songs have become soundtracks …
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 …