topic: black

Los Angeles and the Post-Riots Black Arts Scene
October 12, 2015
I spent the majority of my summer in Los Angeles. New to the city as I was, I had no idea of what to expect besides the ominous presence of...
Poetry
Poets Respond to Violence Against African Americans
September 21, 2015
Introduction ABSENT TREES AND ROPE By Brenda Marie Osbey From May through October, whites beat, stabbed, shot, lynched , burned at the...
Reportage
South Africa: A Tale of Two Nations
August 20, 2015
A Muslim, gay, ‘Coloured’ South African examines how much has really changed in Mandela’s beloved Rainbow Nation. It’s not an easy time to...
blog
Frederick Douglass passed away 120 years today
February 20, 2015
Once you learn how to read, you will be forever free. Frederick Douglass, writer, orator and preeminent African-American social reformer...
column
Spectacle as Camouflage
December 19, 2014
"A Typical Negro" is the title of a 1962 newspaper article narrating the story of an enslaved man, Gordon, and his escape from slavery to...
blog
Ferguson is Haunted by James Baldwin
December 5, 2014
As Ferguson burned with a raw rage against racial inequality and institutionalized violence this summer, legendary black American writer...
videos
"Baldwin's Nigger" (James Baldwin and Dick Gregory)
August 21, 2014
A 1969 conversation with writer James Baldwin and Dick Gregory in London about the black experience in America and how it relates to the...