The place of overpriced soul food inside luxury retailers reveals a lot about the historical appropriate of black culture and racial politics in America. Blackness, as the author says, “has become both valued and devalued by dominant culture.”
2017
Posted inEditor's Pick
Reach Out and Touch Faith
On venerating Uncle Vincent and the saints who can never be saints.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Money For Nothing: It Might Set Your Kids Free
A new study reveals a basic income keeps kids in school longer and reduces their participation in crime.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supplied by the Government
A new study on the Eastern Band population of Cherokee, North Carolina — a group of people who receive hefty bi-annual payments from the local casino — indicates that yes, a basic guaranteed income can be a very positive thing that has no influence on the number of people who work full time.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Bootlegging Jane’s Addiction
In this personal essay, Aaron Gilbreath considers the impact a live Jane’s Addiction recording has had on him, and the effect heroin had on the band’s — and his own — creativity.
Posted inQuotes
Kevin Young Is Ready to Engage the Public with Poetry
The new poetry editor of the New Yorker says that to find poetry, “you have to look in your backyard.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
In the Land of Vendettas That Go On Forever
For some northern Albanians, justice comes from vengeance. Sometimes vengeance keeps killing for generations.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Bootlegging Jane’s Addiction
Aaron Gilbreath considers the impact a live Jane’s Addiction recording has had on him, and the effect heroin had on the band’s — and his own — creativity.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Bootlegging Jane’s Addiction
Aaron Gilbreath considers the impact a live Jane’s Addiction recording has had on him, and the effect heroin had on the band’s — and his own — creativity.
Posted inBlog Post, Story
An Elegy for DNAinfo, Local Media’s First Responders
We were the watchdogs, showing up when no one else did.