Video: Incident (Mature content, includes actual violence)
Harith (Snoop) Augustus had left work at the barbershop down the street when he was shot by a Chicago police officer. Morrison’s documentary captures the final moments of his life, and the actions and reactions of the police and neighbors who were there when it happened.
George Yancy: Cornel West | We Must Keep Our Souls Intact as We Organize Under Trump Again
“Trump is American gangsterism crystallized, honest about itself, unashamed and bold,” says West.
Abby Zimet: Onward Christian Boot Camps
As a baleful Cabinet of Horrors coalesces, up next to run our vast military is “perfect Trump World monster” Pete Hegseth, a creepy, philandering, “inordinately unqualified” White Nationalist facing charges of drunken sexual assault.
Derrick Z. Jackson: Uneasy Election Enthusiasm in Philadelphia
More than any other social condition, concentrated poverty erodes the cooperative networks on which democratic participation depends.
Doralee Brooks: Three Poems
Carmen, the shop assistant, slender and kinetic as a twig in wind,
scrubs my hair. Says how she waxes herself, down there.
Jean Toomer: Harvest Song
My ears are caked with dust of oat-fields at harvest-time.
Reginald Shepherd: Hesitation Theory
I drift into the sound of wind,
how small my life must be
to fit into his palm like that, holly
leaf, bluejay feather, milkweed fluff
Desne A. Crossley: Old Fist, Daniel and My Mom
Beneath the mildly disruptive playfulness, he was a bright kid waiting to be encouraged.
Tracy Fessenden: Decades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering
Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York.
KAMAU FRANKLIN: PROTEST AND SERVE
Organizers working to end police violence refuse to be intimidated by growing efforts to criminalize free speech.
Aidan Rooney: Bel-Air by Louis-Philippe Dalembert
those alleys seven times knifed then again then always
to be part of the tight knit gathered round over a sewer cover
to watch as they germinate
the stars no one of us had sown
Michelle D. Holmes, MD: What accounts for the racial disparity in breast cancer survival?
Studies show that the lack of Black doctors may contribute to the disparity.
Angele Ellis: “no margin on these pages of skin history”
In Every Hard Sweetness, Sheila Carter-Jones weaves a personal and cultural history of racism into poetry.
Jeffrey Sterling: A Whistleblower’s First Post-Prison Trip Abroad
I wasn’t on that stage just to scare the audience about how horrible it will be to be charged under the Espionage Act, I was there to tell them that if I could stand up against it, so can the rest of the world.
