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....
Ceremony of Innocence: a poem about a binary (the title and other lines in this poem respond to William Butler Yeats’ poem, “The Second...
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 Michelle Téllez My terminal contract came to an end in May 2014, after tenure denial at the public university where I had worked as...
By Lytasha Marie Blackwell The following piece was written while I was a junior in high school. This piece reflects my concerns, views, passion,...
Mulatto-ed Our friends are talking about our babies, but we haven’t got to the loving part yet. They are looking at our skin, yours: burnt...
By Keisha Blain Adelaide Casely Hayford was, as she once described herself, a “race woman through and through.” Like Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, Una Marson, and...
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.
words run deep, trickling through layers of Israeli propaganda and lies spoonfed to American audiences of CNN and FOX News. She wove truth...
And now, I hung on to June Jordan’s every word. I watched her on screen in Pratibha Parmar’s A Place of Rage. Her words were...
In our current times of collective struggle’s reinvigoration, the life and works of June Jordan provide vital lessons. Writing between the 1960s and the early...
By Jazlyn Andrews “That girl doesn’t have an ass.” The words hurled through the thick, humid air as if lobbed by a knife-thrower and...
A Series of (Un)related Events: Forty-Five Years After The Black Woman: an Anthology* Marquis Bey It starts without context. Cast as insane, volatile,...
Dear Communities: We are grateful for your engagement with this Forum over these past two and half weeks—reading, comments, and sharing with others. Your interest...
By Shither *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* The spatial...
By Anonymous *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* Our movement is a safe space, they say...
Everybody Loves a Black Man Every black man I have ever known or dared to imagine has been You. You. You. With the long...
By Terese Marie Mailhot *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* Academics’ ethnic enthusiasm wanes when they...