Sherell Barbee

Viewpoint Culture Departments Sherell Barbee October 31, 2024 As the editor of In These Times’ culture section, I believe in art, music, literature, film, theater, dance and comedy. I believe these expressions of life, these gifts we give and these ways we show up for each other, can bring us closer to the future of our revolutionary dreams — or be weaponized to do the opposite. “Culture” just means how we do things, how we determine what we deem acceptable.

I SAID I LOVE YOU AND I WANTED / GENOCIDE TO STOP … I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED / NOBODY THIRST AND NOBODY / NOBODY COLD / I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED I WANTED / JUSTICE UNDER MY NOSE,” June Jordan wrote in her 1996 poem ​“Intifada Incantation: Poem #8 for b.b.L.” As the Los Angeles Review of Books notes, Jordan faced ​“death threats, a loss of writing opportunities and social ostracization within multiracial feminist circles” for years because of the unabashed anti-Zionism that...

Sherell Barbee and Toni Morrison September 26, 2024 MOUTH FULL OF BLOOD Copyright © 2019 by Toni Morrison. THE SOURCE OF SELF-REGARD Copyright © 2019 by Toni Morrison. Reprinted by permission of Estate of Chloe A. Morrison Illustration of Toni Morrison and June Jordan by Rachelle Baker From 1977 to 1979, June Jordan and Toni Morrison were both a part of The Sisterhood, a group of Black women writers who met in a New York City apartment to eat and drink together while discussing liberation.