Arts & Culture
Liberation is a Long Haul: Lessons from Juneteenth
"Juneteenth is a joyful ritual of collective memory and cultural cohesion."
Portraits of Gary, Indiana
Photographs of everyday life for young people in the city.
Remembering David Cornelius Smith
Nearly ten years before the killing of George Floyd, officers from the Minneapolis Police Department suffocated another Black man to death.
Coming Into a Black Woman’s Anger
On Audre Lorde and Minnesota Nice.
Reviving Detroit’s Historic Blue Bird Inn
Once “the nerve center” of the jazz scene in Detroit, the venue is now in shambles. But the Detroit Sound Conservancy and neighborhood leaders have plans to change that.
The Last Children of Mill Creek [Excerpt]
"My father was the grandson of Mississippi slaves, and the son of a thrice-married and divorced mother who had cleaned white peoples’ homes and cared for their children in two states by the time they settled in St. Louis in 1929."
The Restoration of Maxo Vanka’s Working-Class, Immigrant Murals
On the walls of a Pittsburgh-area church, twenty-five scenes of God, war, justice, family.
Remembering the Kent State Shootings, Fifty Years Later
Survivor Chic Canfora reflects on life then and now.
An Elegy for John Prine
"If you listen long enough, you’ll find your own Prine line, the one that makes you feel real lonesome and want to laugh, all at once."
“No Ordinary Time”
A coronavirus sketchbook, March 2020.
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