Wanted/Needed/Loved: Shana Cleveland’s Grandma’s Hats
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...moreMorgan Parker discusses her newest collection, MAGICAL NEGRO.
...moreIt felt like one of those soundtracks where the needle scrapes across the record, and silence prevails.
...moreRumpus editors share their thoughts on Charlottesville and white supremacy. When we have a platform to speak out against hatred and bigotry, we must use it to do so.
...moreWe can’t hide from our history and we can’t pass it on to future generations.
...moreUsing dramatic monologue, Smith unmasks the skinhead’s anger to fend off threats to his way of life.
...moreShadowbahn […] is among the most unusual, and most extreme, in a literary career that has often been marked by its unpredictability.
...moreI’m a small blue dot living in a blood-red corner of a red state, so I’ve grown accustomed to hearing right wing talking points. I don’t like them, but they surface as regularly in my southwest Florida town as white egrets on the highway and dolphins in the Gulf. Talking points at the grocery store, […]
...moreNow the battle is joined. I will prosecute my part of it as a writer till the last dog dies…
...moreColson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad won the National Book Award on Wednesday night. In his acceptance speech he told us, “We’re happy in here; outside is the blasted hellhole wasteland of Trumpland. Be kind to everybody. Make art and fight the power.” Not only was this apt for the evening, but it also describes the […]
...moreNo one knows exactly what the next four years will bring. But we are always stronger when we protest together.
...moreParker set out to bring a different kind of “slavery movie” to audiences. And it is different.
...morePulitzer Prize-winning critic Margo Jefferson talks about her new memoir, Negroland, and about growing up in an elite black community in the segregated Chicago of the 1950s and 1960s.
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