S. E. Anderson and Rosemari Mealy: Hearing Toni’s voice in her poetry presentations was both serious-determined with a jazzy lyrical flava. I strongly believe Sista...
Sarah C. Poindexter: Your impact transcending my small village to persons near and wide—a whole world of people had read your books, watched your films,...
Louis Massiah: On the contrary, when art is understood as a mode of political work, with the explicit goal of communicating a needed counter-narrative or...
Clyde Taylor: Watching the Sisters lead this hip-rumbling, drum-based ritual I wondered, “Say hello to the Sisters of the Good Death for me.” But how...
Ayoka Chenzira: We were more excited to see each other than to hear what was being said to us by industry leaders whose real job...
Zeinabu irene Davis: I still feel you with me when I am watching films in the dark. I will always remember how I would watch...
Photo griot Susan J. Ross shares photographs of Toni Cade Bambara and her friends during this forum celebration.
Paula J. Giddings: The relevance of the to-do list, nearly a half-century later is remarkable; the sensibility definitely our own; and the attitude shaped the...
Samiya A. Bashir: Wake from nightmares midchant. Squish sandblown eyes still as death with a hum bird’s beating heart.
Chadra Pittman Walke: I began what would become my life’s work with ancestors eighteen years ago at the NYABG. I witnessed daily the profound connection...
By Luam Kidane and Hakima Abbas After nearly three months of deliberation the grand jury decision on whether to indict the police officer who murdered...
By Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez As a queer migrant who got asylum based on my sexuality, I often feel exiled from progressive environments in the United States....
By Cinnamon Williams What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun....
By Tala Khanmalek Last year the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) announced that nearly 150 female prisoners in California were sterilized without consent from 2006 to...
By Paula Maggio On the Ohio campus where I taught women’s studies for five years, the lavender Saturn of one of my most thoughtful feminist...
By Heath Fogg Davis Sex-classification policies that bureaucratically and physically sort us into the binary categories of male or female may seem necessary and benign. ...
Dance/Routine for Rafael . I At the second wedding, in between bass drum beats rattling bones to animate bodies into movement I find myself dancing...
PEOPLE WILL LIKE YOU IF YOU LIKE THEM FIRST I make you pork . Pork tenderloin . Herbs on the outside . I...