Danielle Jackson

“Low pay, few housing options, and a lack of job opportunities for teachers’ spouses are some of the obstacles that make recruiting educators a challenging task in many Mississippi communities, and particularly those in the Delta.”

“When I choose, anoint, and burn a candle with my prayers scratched into the wax, when I make my prayers material, I convince myself that I can grab onto a power that will carry me through this life.”

By telling the stories of  Ishaunna Gully and Davokiee Ann Jackson, two women from Laurel, Mississippi, photojournalist Eric J. Shelton tries to understand the specific threat of intimate partner violence for black women in the South.

“For all the ferocity of my love, I’m powerless to protect my kids from the mass extinction we’re in the midst of that could eliminate 30–50 percent of all living species by the middle of the twenty-first century. Why is this not the core of the core curriculum? Why aren’t we all speaking about this?”

Jasmine Sanders writes a cultural history of Black women and fur.

Vanessa Mártir learns about homophobia as a child but grows up to raise her daughter while in a happy, same-sex relationship.