Paul Christensen: What the Rain Says
She would die soon but neither of us knew that. Right now, the precious hours were dissolving in the pale afternoon light, just as the rain began again.
Michael T. Young: Sitting in the Dark
On the day another black man is shot
I sit with my family watching sparrows
pick through soil warmed in sunlight.
George Yancy: Cornel West | The Whiteness of Harvard and Wall Street Is “Jim Crow, New Style”
We are bluesmen and women and we are never, ever surprised by evil, we are never ever paralyzed by despair.
Video: That’s my jazz
Milt Abel II, a world renowned pastry chef, reflects on his relationship with his late father Milton Abel Sr., a legendary Kansas City jazz musician.
Video: The Atlantic Slave Trade
Slavery has occurred in many forms throughout the world, but the Atlantic slave trade — which forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas — stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy.
Video: Liberty
Issues of politics, gentrification, community and epistemology subtly collide in Humes’s evocative and assured short film, Liberty, which has won awards at Berlin, SXSW and the Miami Film Festival.
David Huddle: Villanelle for Lady Day
Billie said, “If I’m going to sing like someone
else, then I don’t need to sing at all.” Let’s
just say I was white and knew how to conform.
Arlene Weiner: A Photo of Jalen, Age 12, in a Batman Costume
Say yes, sir when the officers stop you
for the fourteenth time, looking
for somebody
Video: Liberal Redneck | Minnesota Burning
Justice for George Floyd. These cops are out of control, y’all.
Video: The Urgency of Intersectionality |Kimberlé Crenshaw
Now more than ever, it’s important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias — and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm.
Michelle D. Holmes, M.D: Re-opening America
As health professionals prepare for another wave of the pandemic, a Harvard epidemiologist discusses the injustices arising from rationing medical equipment in America.
Derrick Z. Jackson: The Push to Relax COVID-19 Protections Exposes Age-Old Racial Wounds
Jared Kushner called America’s response to COVID-19, “a great success story.” And some states are moving to aggressively reopen malls, retail stores, restaurants, gyms, bowling alleys, parks, and hair parlors and even ordering people to go back to work.
Video: James Baldwin debates William F. Buckley (1965)
Here is the full 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. at Cambridge University on the question: “Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?”
