As a womanist psychologist, minister, and sacred artist, my reflections on effective response to child sexual abuse necessitate an examination of the journey of survivors...
We must ask: What is the relationship between accountability and transformative justice? Justice that transforms harm into something else, like Black love, is hard work....
I knew then that if following that truth was healing her and kept bringing her back to this honorable work, that indeed we were no...
Living in a punitive, crime and punishment society makes the idea of #LoveWITHAccountability almost inconceivable. What on earth would be unearthed if we began to...
By Elisabeth J. Ferrell-Horan “Wellbutrin in my Brain” There is Wellbutrin in my brain, and I’d like to get it out. It has...
In 1967, Agnes Martin left New York. She bounced around the country, landing in New Mexico where she built herself an adobe home. She would...
By Angela Kong “What’s your major?” They ask me. I pause. I always pause. I’ve never been the type to speak up in class....
By zing taiwo In college, reading the work of Black authors became a watering hole for me. I’d be huddled in the stacks of our college...
Yesterday, in awe, many of us watched recaps of Teyana Taylor’s dance performance in Kanye West’s “Fade” music video. To be sure, sis can dance....
By Sally Deskins “Not Everyone Gets to Be Pretty,” a photograph of the artist donning bloody, streaky red paint and a bulbous, red-and-pink hat,...
By Journey McAndrews ~ for all the Thelmas “Something’s, like, crossed over in me and I can’t go back. I mean I just couldn’t...
________________________________________________________________________________ Jordan Durham holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Idaho where she was the 2015-16 Centrum Fellow. Her poems...
By Ibram X. Kendi In the prologue of my new book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, I...
By Bahar Orang When I was a little girl, I’d often go on long walks with my parents. They would talk to each other, and...
I am the daughter of a black Baptist preacher. I am also a black feminist scholar of Black Religion and Black Diaspora Studies. So on...
This isn’t an open letter. It’s cautionary. Warning tape surrounds this statement. Enter at your own risk.
By Martina “Mick” Powell for KJ Morris and all the beautiful people we lost in Orlando, FL on June 12, 2016 & that...
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.***...