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

  • Argun Ulgen
  • July 27, 2017
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”

  • Brian Spears
  • July 4, 2017
We can’t hide from our history and we can’t pass it on to future generations.
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On Grief and Inheritance: A Conversation with Brionne Janae

  • Olivia Kate Cerrone
  • May 26, 2017
The poet Brionne Janae discusses her debut poetry collection After Jubilee, intergenerational trauma, and writing her way into historical personae.
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All Writing Is Political: A Conversation with Mohsin Hamid

  • Tochi Onyebuchi
  • May 17, 2017
Mohsin Hamid discusses his new novel, Exit West, hope in fiction as a form of resistance, the necessity of learning to accept social change, and how much America and Pakistan have come to resemble each other.
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When a White Man Paints Black People

  • Celeste Mohammed
  • May 3, 2017
[H]ere comes this white boy, Asher Mains. Red-haired too, and bearded, like the pirates that once rummaged Grenada’s coves.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #81: Chanelle Benz

  • Mickie Meinhardt
  • April 27, 2017
Chanelle Benz’s debut collection, The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead, is filled with characters often facing a moral crossroads. The stories contain the unexpected, like a classic Western…
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The Rumpus Saturday Essay: The Savage Mind, Pt. 3

  • David Treuer
  • April 15, 2017
To deny violence is to do it. Our surprise at Sandy Hook and Cold Springs and Columbine is a form of violence in its own right.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 9): “The City Limits”

  • David Biespiel
  • March 28, 2017
[A] nation’s poetry degenerates if it does not embody the language of what is mysterious...
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Interrogating the English Language with Safiya Sinclair

  • Laura Creste
  • March 27, 2017
To be forced to speak in the language of the colonist, the language of the oppressor, while also carrying within us the storm of Jamaican patois, we live under a constant hurricane of our doubleness.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Damian Duffy and John Jennings

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • February 22, 2017
Damian Duffy and John Jennings discuss their new graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's classic novel Kindred.
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Touring Trump’s America on Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad

  • Rajeev Balasubramanyam
  • November 22, 2016
Colson 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…
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The Rumpus Review of Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation

  • Vanessa M. Holden
  • November 3, 2016
Parker set out to bring a different kind of “slavery movie” to audiences. And it is different.
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