Sun Ra: ‘I’m Everything and Nothing’

‘Sun Ra says, “the darkness. Nobody made that. It just happens. Light and all that—someone made that; it’s written that they did. But nobody made the darkness. My music is about dark tradition. Dark tradition means a lot more than black tradition.” On the other, Sun Ra named himself for the sun itself, that roiling source of a light that glows and splatters and bolts out of that universal darkness.”‘

Published: Jul 23, 2020
Length: 12 minutes (3,141 words)

In Plain Sight

Lawyer Anwar al-Bunni is on an ongoing hunt for Syrian war criminals exiled in Europe ‘to send Assad’s regime a message: “Justice is coming.”‘

Published: Jul 15, 2020
Length: 19 minutes (4,840 words)

‘Knowing It Could Kill You Isn’t a Deterrent’: The Deadly Trade in Diet Pills

“She told her friend she wanted to get into a residential eating disorders clinic. She also ordered more DNP.”

Source: The Guardian
Published: Jul 21, 2020
Length: 21 minutes (5,433 words)

The Last Picture of My Mother

“He’s shot her like this: her black dress black as the scrim behind her so that, but for her face, she is in fact part of that darkness, emerging from it as from the depths of memory.”

Source: Elle
Published: Jul 20, 2020
Length: 6 minutes (1,658 words)

The Void Witch

“She was in pursuit of what all black girls were supposed to be born with—a jovial, ironclad self-esteem, a sense of rhythm, and a witchy finesse with jojoba and coconut oils. She was in pursuit of that inalienable right to say whether or not someone was, in fact, down.”

Published: Jun 10, 2020
Length: 17 minutes (4,488 words)

The Police Tried to Make Me Medically Examine a Man Against His Will

On racism in medicine, body autonomy, and one Black doctor’s experience in the ER.

Source: Zora
Published: Jul 6, 2020
Length: 18 minutes (4,611 words)

White Supremacy Was Her World. And Then She Left.

“To stop hate, we have to understand it.”

Published: Jul 19, 2020
Length: 15 minutes (3,900 words)

A Brutal Lynching. An Indifferent Police Force. A 34-Year Wait For Justice.

“How the murder of Timothy Coggins was finally solved.”

Source: GQ
Published: Jul 17, 2020
Length: 14 minutes (3,694 words)

The True Story of the Heartthrob Prince of Qatar and His Time at USC

Lori Loughlin has nothing on the Al Thani family.

Published: Jul 16, 2020
Length: 19 minutes (4,825 words)

They Depended on Their Parents for Everything. Then the Virus Took Both.

Nash, Nadeen, and Nanssy Ismael struggle with the loss of their parents — while learning to pay bills, take care of themselves, and be a family.

Published: Jul 20, 2020
Length: 19 minutes (4,782 words)