Amy M. Alvarez, Jameka Harley: How Black poets and writers gave a voice to ‘Affrilachia’
A turning point took place 30 years ago, when Black Appalachian culture experienced a renaissance centered around a single word: “Affrilachia.”
Ted Kooser: Mudflaps
Out driving, I like to come up behind trucks
with mudflaps, chalky, slate-colored ones
hanging onto their hard jobs
Robert P. Alvarez: Humanizing the People Police Kill
The standard, often unreliable reporting on police killings dehumanizes victims — a fact my own family knows too well.
Janette Schafer: On the day I testify for Homeland Security
Janette agreed to share these details publicly to help allay the stigma, shame, and secrecy inherent with being a sex abuse survivor.
Joe Loria: Factory Farming Is Killing Our Planet. Here’s How.
To protect the planet, we need to protect farmed animals.
William Wordsworth: Lines Written in Early Spring
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?
Karen Greenberg: Will America’s Forever Offshore Prison Ever Be Closed?
Can Guantánamo ever be shut down?
Thaddeus L. Johnson, Natasha N. Johnson: American cities have long struggled to reform their police – but isolated success stories suggest community and officer buy-in might be key
Getting police and community on board with reforms is crucial for success.
Nina Kossman: Upon seeing a portrait of Genrikh Yagoda* on a wall in a Moscow police station
so many feet that did not run away,
so many mouths that did not speak,
so many inheritors of what can’t be described
Abby Zimet | Killology Inc: America’s Police
The murders by cop go on – the latest, Lymond Moses, was asleep in his car – prompting furious calls for police reform from many weary of the carnage.
Derrick Z. Jackson: Biden’s new moonshot — An offshore wind industry to rival Europe’s
Today, Europe has 5,400 turbines rising from the ocean with a capacity of 25 gigawatts, of energy – enough to power more than 8 million homes.
Joe Kadi: Musings about a Gender Transition
My dear friends, I am here to tell you that men do indeed talk in bathrooms and in changerooms.
Video: Meeting the Enemy | Cassie Jaye
A feminist comes to terms with the Men’s Rights movement.
Video: There is Power in a Union by Joe Hill (with bio and lyrics)
From San Diego up to Maine,
In every mine and mill,
Where working-men defend their rights,
It’s there you find Joe Hill
