Get Angry Then Get Free: The Political Necessity of Rioting in Dismantling the System

“Political struggle can leap five years in five days, such is its nature. What lies around the corner of tomorrow is unknowable; what is knowable are our solidarities and strategies.” To understand and contextualize today’s protests, you gotta know your history.

Source: Novara Media
Published: Jun 6, 2020
Length: 20 minutes (5,110 words)

You Are The Second Person

“You wondered out loud what writing “multiculturally” actually meant and what kind of black man would write the word “bro” in an email.”

Published: Jun 17, 2020
Length: 17 minutes (4,486 words)

Echoes in the Chelsea Hotel

This is life inside New York City’s legendary building during pandemic, where history and modern life meet in the quiet halls.

Source: Popula
Published: Jun 1, 2020
Length: 9 minutes (2,387 words)

The Messengers

“One Small Magazine’s Fight for the Indian Mind”

Published: Jun 1, 2020
Length: 30 minutes (7,544 words)

How Generations of Black Women Artists Are Lost to Institutional Racism

“All of my most cherished conversations on [Kathleen] Collins have been with Black women. My introduction to her came via the work of the first female editor I worked with. Her stunning meditation on both Collins and her daughter opened my eyes to a woman whose late arrival to my canon was one I couldn’t understand. As often as I’ve come back to her writings, I’ve also come back to this introductory essay which touched on art, secrets, love, and illness.”

Source: Catapult
Published: May 7, 2020
Length: 9 minutes (2,402 words)

Our Brother Kaizen

“He would be called a murderer and a domestic terrorist. But to us, he was family. Our struggles with systemic racism were the same.”

Source: Vulture
Published: Jun 4, 2020
Length: 15 minutes (3,858 words)

The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage.

“Awash in the ghastly video mosaic shot by black people’s cameraphones, I found myself doubled over the kitchen sink. Then a lyric gave me strength.”

Published: Jun 3, 2020
Length: 6 minutes (1,700 words)

The Story Has Gotten Away from Us

“Six months of life and death in America.”

Published: Jun 3, 2020
Length: 22 minutes (5,600 words)

American Plague

“Racism watered this country from its very seedlings, and it has had a long time to grow unimpeded. Ending its influence, both on our very person and on public policy, is a demolition job.”

Source: Rolling Stone
Published: Jun 3, 2020
Length: 7 minutes (1,943 words)

What Didn’t Kill Her

Bernice L. McFadden ruminates on all the things her mother has endured only to find herself spending her golden years in the midst of a deadly plague and state-sanctioned racism.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 4, 2020
Length: 8 minutes (2,024 words)