civil rights Archives

Migration and return: De’Shawn Charles Winslow on going back to West Mills

I was able to visualize my hometown so much more keenly, having not lived there in fifteen years. I believe it allowed me to write about the place with a little bit more compassion than if I had tried to write these books living there.

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What We Inherit: Talking with Chanelle Benz

Chanelle Benz discusses her debut novel, THE GONE DEAD.

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How Langston Hughes Inspired #TweetYourThobe

Langston, I am finally at the table, eating with everyone.

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Art in Resistance: A Conversation with Martha Rosler

Martha Rosler discusses half a century of creating political art.

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Figuring It Out: A Conversation with Rosellen Brown

Rosellen Brown discusses her new novel, THE LAKE ON FIRE.

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Blind Hunger, Black Bodies, and Radiohead’s In Rainbows

I’ve seen it coming. This is where it passes through.

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The Thread: Ways of Being Seen

Can you see it now? Is the image different in your mind yet? A thing you can’t unsee.

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Your Patriotism Isn’t Love, It’s Blindness

Love of country, some argue. With their boots firmly planted in my chest as I struggle to protest. No, that is not love, but blindness.

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There Is Simply No Time for This: Whose Streets? and Civil Rights Cinema

It is unlikely I will see the US justice system evolve toward an egalitarian ideal in my lifetime. But Whose Streets? does offer a clearly visible North Star.

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 15): “Southern History”

We can’t hide from our history and we can’t pass it on to future generations.

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This Week in Essays

For Huffington Post’s Highline magazine, Jason Fagone profiles a trauma surgeon working to make a small dent in our country’s problem with gun violence. At Catapult, Abbey Fenbert writes a funny, heartfelt…

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