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The Ways We Show Up After November 5
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.
June Jordan on Palestine and American Delusions
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...
Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship
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.
June Jordan's Timeless Voice for Perilous Times
But each American one of us feels so special and so different that none of us assumes the validity of his or her outrage or longing inside the mythical context of “the American Mainstream.” We become persuaded that the people of our country must be somebody else, not you and me, even as we regard our government as some alien, half-deaf, and unaccountable monarch to whom we — sooner or later — must pay homage or, at least, taxes.
Reflections on the 10-year Anniversary of the Ferguson Protests
Sherell Barbee and Jacqui Germain August 8, 2024 If you drive up West Florissant Avenue, heading north away from the Gateway Arch, and make a right onto Canfield Drive — past the trees lining Windward Court, past where the kids used to play double Dutch and hopscotch along Glen Owen Drive, past where they huddled for games of tag and hide-and-seek along Bahama Court — you’ll find a secret entrance to a creek.
Portraits in RED: The 'Silent Crisis' Facing Indigenous Women
This article was originally published by In These Times. Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind was eight months pregnant in August 2017 when neighbor Brooke Crews asked for help on a sewing project. Having been neighbors for a while, 22-year-old Savanna felt comfortable enough to enter Crews’ apartment.
One Portrait Was Too Many. Now There Are 110.
Sherell Barbee March 7, 2024 Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind was eight months pregnant in August 2017 when neighbor Brooke Crews asked for help on a sewing project. Having been neighbors for a while, 22-year-old Savanna felt comfortable enough to enter Crews’ apartment. After she did, Savanna was shoved to the floor and knocked unconscious; Crews performed a C-section, stole the newborn baby and discarded Savanna’s body in the Red River, where it was found by kayakers eight days later.
Letters From Gaza
The genocide that Palestinians are facing in Gaza is being captured in almost real time on social media, where many Palestinians continue to share videos and photographs in detail and high definition.
Golden on Learning How to Live as a Black, Queer and Trans Artist from the South
In 1985, poet and essayist June Jordan wrote this ode to Phillis Wheatley: Come to this country a slave and how should you sing? After the flogging the lynch rope the general terror and weariness what should you know of a lyrical life? …belonging to no one, but property to those despising the smiles of your soul, how could you dare to create yourself: a poet? Around age 7, Wheatley was taken from her home in West Africa and trafficked to Boston, where she was sold into slavery.
The Radical History of Black Cartoonists
Sherell Barbee November 16, 2021 With Black writers and artists shut out of white-owned publications like the Chicago Tribune for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the flourishing of Black-owned periodicals like the Chicago Defender, Jet and Negro Digest (renamed Black World) brought not just articles written by and for Black readers, but Black comic art.
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