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Orwell’s Last Neighborhood

by Longreads April 5, 2019April 21, 2023

While envisioning the darkest of futures and grappling with mortality, the English writer retreated to an idyllic Scottish isle to write Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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Stacey Abrams’ Historic Win in Georgia: A Reading List

by Danielle Jackson May 25, 2018October 19, 2022

Stacey Abrams’ win in Georgia could put one of the U.S.’s most populous red states in play for progressives for the first time in decades.

Secrets of the South

by Sari Botton October 9, 2017October 19, 2022

Novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge writes about her weekend in Chesapeake, Virginia for the 150th anniversary of United Order of Tents, a secret society of black women established after the end of the civil war, which has long provided much needed financial and other kinds of support to black communities.

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Fugitive Justice

by Jennifer Lunden September 6, 2019January 27, 2023

After stumbling upon the scene of the capture of an escaped murderer, clinical social worker Jennifer Lunden grapples with the polarities of innocence and guilt, social neglect and social justice.

Nonfiction

Mothering on the Borders

by Yifat Susskind April 25, 2019April 14, 2023

Yifat Susskind stands at three of the world’s most militarized borders and reflects on what is revealed about these zones of separation and violence when we see them from the perspective of mothers.

Under Trump, A Hard Test for Howard University

by Danielle Jackson January 8, 2018October 19, 2022

For The New Yorker, historian and journalist Jelani Cobb dives deep into the history of Washington D.C.’s Howard University, one of the nation’s largest HBCU’s. Howard alumni include Thurgood Marshall, Kamala Harris, and Toni Morrison, and the school has played a large role in facilitating the social mobility of blacks in America since the Civil War. Cobb […]