Dearest Readers, Thank you for your continued support. And thank you for loving us and valuing our work. ***We are breaking from June 15-July 15.***...
By Lytasha Marie Blackwell The following piece was written while I was a junior in high school. This piece reflects my concerns, views, passion,...
“True liberation must come from within. I am a Black feminist lesbian who is a survivor of both incest/child sexual abuse and rape. What better...
By RaShelle R. Peck The summer of 2015 was tragic and bloody. One incident that constantly appeared in the media was the murder of Cecil...
By Chi-Chi Ayalogu This is an era in social consciousness when the knee jerk reaction to gender based violence is to attack the perpetrator,...
By Pascha Bueno-Hansen On Friday, March 4, 2016, a group of survivors, advocates, and activists occupied the entrance to the Peruvian national criminal court,...
By Charmaine Daboiku The email said “ABC News/Nightline Request for Info” in the subject line. I thought it was spam, and I almost deleted it....
By Antonia Randolph Introduction Caring for the black interior, or the inner life of black people, is necessary for political action and for the emotional...
By Natasha Chanto I am nothing like the girls advertised in by the media. I am 5’1”, I weigh 125 pounds, my breasts are...
By Julie Winterich If you find this title ugly, you’re right. It’s jarring and upsetting. So is sexual violence. I’m a professor of sociology...
By Yehuda Sharim Scratch the surface of the living conditions in the United States, and you’ll find immigrants for whom deportation is not merely a threat or a...
By Taylor Bak I will write these poems until I prove you wrong, I will write these poems even if they’re a “waste...
Someone has to access this history just so he/she/they may wrestle to the ground this troubling concept, one that carries within it two dangerous strains—colonialism...
This online gathering represents a tiny sampling of all those whose lives have been influenced, impacted, ignited, and inspired by June Jordan’s relentless and fiercely...
Inspired by the work of June Jordan we have both offered artistic, sonic, and poetic meditations on June Jordan’s, A Poem about My Rights.
By Alexis De Veaux Conjuring I do not meet June Jordan. I encounter her. The way one encounters what one cannot see- force, cosmic energy,...
words run deep, trickling through layers of Israeli propaganda and lies spoonfed to American audiences of CNN and FOX News. She wove truth...
Jordan turned the most gruesome horrors in our world—the world of Arab isolation and unabated imperial violence--into searing poems and essays that spoke to...