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I’m Not Distracted: Why Consciousness Cops Are Ruining Social Media
Today, New York Magazine released a piece featuring 35 of Bill Cosby’s accusers discussing their sexual assaults at his hands. The article is a stunning and disturbing account of the …
Where Brooklyn At? The Rise of Gentrification and the Fall of Hip-Hop
The new Brooklyn is different. It’s a place people come to, not a place people come from Photo by Chris Ford [nextpage title=”Next Page”] The image of modern-day Brooklyn is …
After Charleston-Letters from Our Readers
[nextpage title=”Two” ] In the days since 9 members of the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina were brutally murdered by white supremacist Dylan Roof, many of us have …
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 …
“It’s Not Even Surprising Anymore”: Middle School Students React to Police Brutality
Editor’s Note: This gallery is a complimentary piece to Clara Green’s article “The True Crime” about the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal. Five days after the school year started in Atlanta, …
The True Crime: Atlanta Public Schools after the Cheating Scandal
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 …
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 …