A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake
We are constantly and without a moments notice bombarded with images and news stories centered around conflict and suffering. An overload...
Harper's Index
1:50 Number of trees leaves in New York City that have turned colors with the season 75 Percentage of scientists who predicted that the...
Documentary Theatre: A Different Kind of Truth
We as a species are undeniably addicted to stories. We get them everywhere we can: TV, movies, newspapers, websites, social media, and,...
The Last Day of the First Part of My Life
When we are not immediately involved historical events but were alive to bear witness to them, we often think of them in the context of...
Good Touches and Bad Touches: What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
In elementary school, once a year, an older woman in plain clothes would come to our school library, and she, the principal, and a...
Insurance Fraud & Kanye West: Capitalizing off Black Bodies When the 13th Amendment Isn’t Enough
Kanye West’s net worth amounts to around one hundred forty-five million dollars. One hundred and five million dollars were from concerts...
What Real America Helped Us Understand
“Talking New Orleans in the Age of Trump,” by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, is a non-fiction piece about the writer’s lived experience as it...
Multiple Choice
Read each selection carefully then answer the following question. A black church in Greenville, Mississippi, was set on fire on Tuesday...
The Transformations Suite and Black Empowerment in Music
Opening music of the second song on the album. The upright bass plays an ostinato that emulates a rocking boat as we listen to Jeremie...
Between
Live Oak School: the place where the parents of my elementary and middle school peers paid $23,000 a year for them to attend. My dad had...