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By Asante Keron Hamid Picking and choosing what to keep and what to crop. Pick of the litter. Pick of the cotton. No Afro picks. No cornrows. Three-fifths out of the photograph and one stanza too censored for an epitaph and one bullet too deceased for the polygraph to detect our truth. Blue in black water [...]
By Anna DiMartino Tonight, we’ll eat salad– it’s all I can handle. Under water, I try to rinse the dirt from the lettuce. No matter how careful, I always manage to miss a little bit of grit. Without fail, it turns up in that last bite. But not tonight. One by one, I tear each [...]
By Mark Williams Anytime Giuliani talks on television the words “available for birthdays” should flash beneath him on the screen. – Paula Poundstone Dear [...]
Jennifer Meneray (Jenn) is best known for her participation in feminist resistance. Witnessing the injustice that took place in her hometown of Hinkley, California, encouraged her to focus on documenting stories less heard in the mainstream. As an artist, she explores how social movement is a way to demand social justice. Now, based in Washington, DC, [...]
By M.A. Banash It's 11:55 a.m. I'm crouching on the toilet at work. Pants buckled. Jabbing my phone to download an app. I want to get pizza for dinner but I'm too—what's the word?—nervous, uptight, about ordering on the phone. The acoustics are daunting. Figure I should finally get in step with the world and [...]
