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.
Clarence Lusane: Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis
Two Peas in a White Nationalist Pod
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:
Kim Stafford: Poems for a Cause
Maybe we’re past hints and whispers,
our chance gone for subtle scents
and fugitive flavors—time for coffee
black, jolt of onion, garlic unadorned.
Amanda Alexander, Deanna Van Buren: The Care(ful) Work of Abolishing Prisons
How to kick our national addiction to prisons
George Yancy: Policing Does Not Have Problems — It Is the Problem
We must examine proactive ways to address the social issues that lead to crime and violence, which does not necessitate more police.
Derrick Z. Jackson: Why Does White East Palestine, Ohio Get Apologies, But None for Black Cancer Alley?
East Palestine, Ohio is getting endless apologies as Cancer Alley in Louisiana deals daily with a petrochemical wall of denial.
Daja E. Henry: Environmental Justice Activists in Memphis Are Finally Turning the Tide
Black women, particularly mothers, are leading efforts to treat people currently harmed by toxic neighborhoods and prevent future damage.
Irene Vázquez: How Black Hair Practices Can Inspire Architecture
An exhibit at the University of Houston explores how Black hair techniques can be translated into innovative building materials, designs, and methods.
Nneka M. Okona: The Imposition of Black Grief
For Black people in the United States, grief and loss are intertwined with our very being. Our ancestors knew the trauma of loss intimately…
Abby Zimet: Acts That Defy Humanity
The arrests offer little solace to friends and family grieving for a kind, joyful, “good human,” “quirky and true to himself,” “good spirit and soul” who attended church youth group and worked to be a good dad.
Rashad Shabazz: Black police officers aren’t colorblind – they’re infected by the same anti-Black bias as American society and police in general
Policing in the U.S. has, from its inception, treated Black people as domestic enemies.
Maria J. Stephan: Achieving a Multiracial Democracy
King understood that no single approach would be sufficient to combat the interconnected evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism.
Derrick Z. Jackson: Black College Students Are An Endangered Species Unless They Play Ball
One thing seems certain if the Supreme Court bans affirmative action in college admissions: The only Black men left on campus will be athletes.
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