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The War Against Black Children
In a predominantly Black South L.A. continuation school class packed with eleventh and twelfth grade girls, only half want to go to college, few can...
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Fiction Flash: Lyssa in Limbo
By Michelle Auerbach (Excerpt from The Third Kind of Horse) I stared hard at Melody, at the blonde tips of her hair and I knew,...
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Proof She Existed
By Wendy Staley Colbert Push open one of the paneled, double doors leading into my bedroom and you’ll see angled against the corner a 19th-century-style,...
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A Trip to Richmond
By Starita Smith Richmond, Virginia is the ultimate recycling of the human experience. It is like an urban trompe l’oeil in which places where atrocities...
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You Have No Idea
By Brittany “Beebs” Burton Until you’ve been raped, you have no idea what it’s like. You don’t know what it’s like to walk into a...
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LGBTQ Film Feature: “U People” Fifth Anniversary Interview with Hanifah Walidah
Nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary in 2010, U People is a music video, a documentary LGBT film, and a...
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Op-Ed: Black Elders Need to Stop Demonizing Black Youth
By Aaron Talley Sometimes, I shudder to think that many of the Black elders fighting against Trayvon Martin’s death might have actually held the same...
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Fiction Feature: "Planets" by Kaitlyn Greenidge
By Kaitlyn Greenidge We the only girls who leave our walk. We the only girls that travel. All the other girls on our walk,...
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Zimmerman’s Freedom and the Charges Against Me
The political nature of my charges cannot be over-stated here. To give human rights to a mechanical entity constructed solely for the sake of...
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Am I A Race Traitor? Trayvon Martin, Gender Talk, and Invisible Black Women
By j.n. salters “Because of the continuous battle against racial erasure that black women and black men share, some black women still refuse to recognize that we are...
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Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Reads at Nuyorican Poets Cafe for Fresh Fruit Festival NYC
Even as LGBT characters and “out” celebrities become more common in pop culture and mainstream media, the richness and complexity of real queer lives is...
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Table of Contents for "A Celebration of Assata and the Black Radical Tradition"
Here is a list of the articles that appeared in our forum, “Celebrating Assata Shakur and the Black Radical Tradition,” offered with gratitude to each...
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Assata Shakur: She Who Struggles
By Luam Kidane Assata Shakur. she who struggles. Assata Shakur. she who struggles for rupture from colonized thought patterns. thought patterns choreographed to the legacies...
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Criminalizing Human Rights Work: Assata and the Incarceration of Black Women
By Meron Wondwosen In 1918, one year shy of turning 20 and eight months pregnant, Mary Turner was terrorized by a white lynch mob who...
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Assata: The Rose That Grew from Concrete
by Rizvana Bradley The trial scene that concludes the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God glimpses a specific form of panoptic enclosure that has given...
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My Tattoos are Not an Invitation
By Audrey Lundahl As a Coloradoan now living in Texas, the summer temperatures are trying. One way I cope is wearing heat-appropriate clothing. Wearing my...
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On Love, Empathy, and Pleasure in the Age of Neoliberalism
In this, the age of late capital and neoliberalism, numbness is desired and the erotic is feared. Audre Lorde aptly deemed this the “fear of...
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Featured Poet: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
By LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs bacche kā pōtRā bloom, the dandelion dance of Keisha’s mane. a Wave of bush. her kitchen pearls &...
