What whiteness wants . What might life feel like for all those folks who traversing it with ease wanting for …
TERSE VERSE | More Brothers in Print not In Prison, a poem by Killah Shark
Cell thinking About the blood spilled across bridges Bone marrow freedoms vote across state lines handcuffed freedom fighters standing up …
EDUCATION | Each Candidate’s “Black Agenda”
We share a portion of Harriot’s comprehensive analysis found in “The Root” (February 29, 2020)
“We asked policy experts, legal scholars and political pundits, all of whom were black, to help us devised a policy matrix. Then we graded each plan on a scale of 1 to 10…”
Terse Verse | Floating in the flat black pacific, a poem by Killah Shark
Floating in the flat black pacific Wetsuit on he sees The police chase on the boardwalk Looking east his vision …
#BriefButSpectacular w/ poet Tongo Eisen-Martin
Poetry as Revolution. “Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin was born and raised in San Francisco, a city whose rapid gentrification he critiques in his work.”
REST w/ Toni Morrison – “The Pieces I Am”
“Tony Morrison‘s work shows us through pain all the myriad ways we can come to love. That is what …
Erasure the Occupant #14 | Heather DeQuinn
Full and downloadable Letter from President Trump to House Speaker Pelosi Heather Quinn is a poet living in San Francisco …
The White Head | Editorial
Inspired by the words of Eddie Glaude, “Blaming Trump is too easy: This is us.” Eddie Glaude, the chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, speaks to American culture, racism in 2019 and how President Trump is the “manifestation of the ugliness that’s inside us.”
image: from Plewig and Kligman´s “Acne and Rosacea” text.