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Katharine Gammon: Overcoming Climate Chaos with Comedy

Turns out, being able to laugh at something increases our ability to understand it—and take action.

June 1, 2023 · Leave a comment

Derrick Z. Jackson: How Climate Change and ‘Heat Islands’ are Killing Black People

America’s history of redlining and other forms of housing discrimination means that climate change and the Black community are on a deadly collision course.

May 30, 2023 · 2 Comments

Elsa Gidlow: Chance

Strange that a single white iris
Given carelessly one slumbering spring midnight
Should be the first of love,
Yet life is written so.

May 26, 2023 · 6 Comments

Carlene M. Gadapee: Give Peace a Chance

The Burning World by Sherod Santos is a complicated and arresting mytho-historical and contemporary narrative demonstrating the pain of war and conflict.

May 25, 2023 · 5 Comments

Clarence Lusane: Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis

Two Peas in a White Nationalist Pod

May 23, 2023 · 9 Comments

Barbara Edelman: Lot’s Wife

And now I look back
to see that recognition,
that love,
was the lesson I took

May 21, 2023 · 2 Comments

Video: Chinyanta Kabaso | The Dazzling Diversity of African Dance

The dazzling diversity of African dance — in 14 moves

May 20, 2023 · 6 Comments

Svante Myrick: Armed and Afraid

As more senseless shootings claim lives, it’s time to turn away from apocalyptic rhetoric and focus on what actually makes us safer.

May 16, 2023 · 4 Comments

Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard: Nameless Pain

I should be happy with my lot:
A wife and mother – is it not
Enough for me to be content?
What other blessing could be sent?

May 12, 2023 · 3 Comments

Greg Lobas: Her Animal Self

Hanging by a shred of flesh
next to the silky, glistening club of her ankle joint,
is a dangling puppet of a foot without the strings.

May 11, 2023 · 11 Comments

Mike Vargo: AI and the Quantification of Everything

As someone who in fact aced the SAT and similar tests — but who then goofed off probably more than he should’ve at a fine university, and who in adult life has displayed episodes of colossal stupidity — I would not trust any attempt to put a number on a person’s intelligence.

May 9, 2023 · 8 Comments

Barbara Hamby: Ode to American English

no one uses
the King James anymore, only plain-speak versions,
in which Jesus, raising Lazarus from the dead, says,
“Dude, wake up,” and the L-man bolts up like a B-movie
mummy. “Whoa, I was toasted.”

May 8, 2023 · 13 Comments

Baron Wormser: The Holy War

What resides within Christianity… is the God-person whose life and times were radical and disruptive.

May 7, 2023 · 2 Comments

Etheridge Knight: Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane

Hard Rock / was / “known not to take no shit
From nobody,” and he had the scars to prove it:

May 5, 2023 · 10 Comments

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