“A pickup truck and a backhoe show up on the days, usually Tuesdays and Thursdays with good weather, when babies are buried at the county...
By C. Riley Snorton “…he grammar of their suffering–was indeed an ethical grammar. Perhaps it is the only ethical grammar…for it draws our attention not...
By Yehuda Sharim Palestinian women never cry when they appear on Israeli TV. On news broadcasts, the same scene repeats itself: the women’s heads invariably covered...
This past weekend members of the Editorial Collective journeyed to Ferguson, MO with “Black Lives Matter Ride (BLMR),” a national advocacy effort organized in the spirit of the...
By Stephanie Gilmore and Pia Guerrero We at The Feminist Wire, as well as so many of us across the United States and around the world,...
Hands Up Don’t Shoot: Collected Essays/Stories on the Racialization of Murder Co-edited by: Stanley Doyle-Wood, Bedour Alagraa , and Gurpreet Singh Johal *Revised Call...
By Carolyn Davis Last year, I sat in front of my television in Brookline, a Boston suburb, and watched on live TV as police officers...
By Ashley Millner The hardest part about being African American in a cruel, ignorant world is that many of my peers are unaware that...
In South Los Angeles’s Crenshaw District, there are three funeral homes within a one mile radius of each other. On bright sunny days, young people...
I have been listening to the new Blood Orange album, Cupid Deluxe, twice a day for the past few weeks. A friend suggested it for...
By Lauren Heintz The images of militarized police in Ferguson rightly bring to mind the trickle down of military devices to state police, as Rania...
Two poets consider Michael Brown, Ferguson, MO, and the crucial ways in which Black Life Matters. How Do I Love Thee? A love...
By Vanessa Lynn Lovelace On Saturday, August 9, 2014 at around noon, eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was gunned down by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer. Eyewitnesses...
By Zillah Eisenstein Hillary Rodham Clinton (un)officially entered the 2016 presidential race in her interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic magazine. Much has been...
If you are still trying to admit defeat in the face of racism, you aren't reading enough people of color. Until they give up, you...
It is typically poor and/or women of color who bear the brunt of...contracted out reproductive labor. They bear the brunt of our burdens—we are parasitic...
By Tiffany Lamoreaux Last week this lovely gem made its way around my internet feeds. The Buzzfeed list features 14 women, holding up signs that note...
A young black man was killed this weekend. He was shot multiple times by police while walking to his grandmother’s house. He was left to...