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Finding Belonging as a Nomad in a World of Hometown-Loving Black Folk
No question vexes me quite like “where you from?” I grew up at 19474 Sorrento, on the west side of Detroit, Michigan. It was a large colonial house in the …
How can you defend those people?
Why did I choose to be a public defender? I’m often asked why I would want to defend “those people,” “those monsters”. I have heard the question at every interview …
The Church of Nayvadius
It was 3 or 4:something AM after a Lil B show in 2010. I was in a smoked out Harlem apartment with a few friends, all of us listening …
Movement Generations: On Julian Bond
It is universally acknowledged that political and civil rights are hollow [without] economic rights, that economic and social rights without political and civil rights still may constitute slavery. And so, …
Vultures
Seven Scribes is excited to present “Vultures” in partnership with Kinfolks: a journal of black expression a journal “dedicated to thinking about blackness in its infinite permutations by publishing the work of …
Dreams: The Case of Queer Deferment
I do not love my father. I do not think that I ever have. And that’s okay. This resignation is not a new or revolutionary sentiment, because my father and …