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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

Clarence Lusane: Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis

Two Peas in a White Nationalist Pod

May 23, 2023 · 9 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

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.

April 26, 2023 · 10 Comments

Amanda Alexander, Deanna Van Buren: The Care(ful) Work of Abolishing Prisons

How to kick our national addiction to prisons

April 18, 2023 · 8 Comments

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.

April 12, 2023 · 4 Comments

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.

March 29, 2023 · Leave a comment

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.

March 21, 2023 · 4 Comments

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.

March 14, 2023 · Leave a comment

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…

March 2, 2023 · 4 Comments

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.

February 2, 2023 · 6 Comments

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.

February 1, 2023 · 5 Comments

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. 

January 16, 2023 · 4 Comments

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.

January 2, 2023 · 4 Comments

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