Rev. Dr. Charles N. Davidson: A Summons to a Nationwide Citizens’ Mobilization to Free and Unite Migrant and Refugee Children and Families
The crucial moment has arrived amid the immigration crisis inflaming the nation—the time for citizens from cities, townships, and hamlets across the land to answer the clarion call to take … Continue reading
Ann Fisher-Wirth: Prayer
Let the mothers rush toward their babies and wrap their arms around them tight enough to hold back even the sea if it would harm them. Let the anguish … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: From “Ghetto Hawk — The Diary of Publius”
11/6 I held Sam after class today. He stared out the window and cried. He tells me that he just wants to go home. We discuss his behavior. Sam … Continue reading
Dominik W. Rettinger & Christine Skarbek: Kommando Puff
A new novel From Poland recounts the industrialization of rape at Auschwitz. Kommando Puff is a novel that exposes the lives of two women: Anna, the German mother of an SS-officer … Continue reading
Video: Behind the Bars
. The African-American poet who travelled 1,200 miles to Harvard, only to be thrown in jail. I am a pilgrim far from home, A wanderer like Mars, And thought my … Continue reading
Fadi Abu Shammalah & Jen Marlowe: The Great Return March and the Women of Gaza
Why Palestine’s Feminists are Fighting on Two Fronts “I am here because I heard my town call me, and ask me to maintain my honor.” Fifty-seven-year-old Um Khalid Abu Mosa … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Why does Trump keep acting against U.S. interests in foreign policy?
Why does Trump keep acting against U.S. interests in foreign policy? Stupidity? Narcissism? Or maybe it’s money from Russia and elsewhere. Let’s take a bird’s eye view at the foreign … Continue reading
Jeremy Slevin: The UN Just Published a Scathing Indictment of US Poverty
UN special rapporteur Philip Alston. (Photo credit TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images) “The $1.5 trillion in tax cuts in December 2017 overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy and worsened inequality.” The United Nations has … Continue reading
Tom Engelhardt: Walking While Black
Like everyone else in America, you undoubtedly know about the recent afternoon shutdown of 8,000 Starbucks stores for anti-bias training after the well-publicized handcuffing and arrest of two black men … Continue reading
Video: Lucille Clifton reads her poems at Lannan
. Lucille Clifton was born in 1936 in Depew, New York and died in 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her luminous and incisive poems have been published in nine books, including The Book of … Continue reading
Tasha Williams: The Surprisingly Long History of Racial Oppression in Coffee Shops
Centuries before two Black men were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks, capitalists met at coffee shops to profit from the transatlantic slave trade. An illustration of Edward Lloyd’s coffee house, … Continue reading
Daniel R. Cobb: America is Stuck in Trump Hog Day
Every day in Trumpland looks just like the day before, except it’s always worse. We wake up each morning and Trump is still in the White House. He piles lies upon … Continue reading
Kathryn Levy: The Protest
I’m afraid for my daughter. I’m afraid for the air my daughter keeps breathing—or struggling to breathe. I am afraid for myself—at night I can hear them, the huge missiles … Continue reading
Allison Skinner: The slippery slope of dehumanizing language
Comparing people to animals seems to increasingly be a part of our political discourse. When Roseanne Barr tweeted that former White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett was the child of … Continue reading
