The Blacker the Berry, the Quicker They Shoot
Fear is real. Pain is real. Loss is real. Suffering is real.
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Posts Tagged: Tamir Rice
Too Close to Home
I can’t relax. Bullets are on my mind.
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The Thread: Outside the Gaze
This is the story I needed as a young girl; this is the story we all need.
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Angie Thomas
Angie Thomas discusses her debut novel, The Hate U Give, landing an agent on Twitter, and why she trusts teenagers more than the publishing industry.
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The Friends of Dorothy Have Something to Say to Kansas
As we move backward in time, we must beware of yellow brick fallacies. Also: poppy fields, flying monkeys, and entrepreneurial wizards.
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On Suffering and Sympathy
What is the distance between sympathy and action? How do we travel from one to the other?
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Rising Above the Rink: Remembering Bill Nunn
In those little moments, a higher truth emerges from above the rink: with some humor, peace becomes more possible.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Tiny Bubbles
A bubble is a sphere of privilege, but it also provides the safety to mix up more soapy water and to blow new bubbles to protect what we hold dear.
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A Deputy Chief Recommended Dismissal Long Ago
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R.I.P.: The Museum of Death
What strikes me is not the necrophilia or the fetal pigs or the spoon designed for scooping out human brain matter, but rather the mundane.
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Return to Braggsville
Two authors take a trip that they did not take to a place that’s no place (but could be anywhere) in Wiley Cash’s feature on novelist T. Geronimo Johnson and his new book, Welcome to Braggsville.
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