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Issue 75: 15 November 2018

America

By Editor| 2018-11-14T09:44:12-08:00 November 15th, 2018|Categories: Issue 75: 15 November 2018|Tags: Poetry, Asante Keron Hamid, #BlackLivesMatter|

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 [...]

Black Lives Matter? Will Our Stories Save Us?
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Black Lives Matter? Will Our Stories Save Us?

Issue 13: 23 Feb 2017

Black Lives Matter? Will Our Stories Save Us?

By Editor| 2017-02-22T16:41:03-08:00 February 23rd, 2017|Categories: Issue 13: 23 Feb 2017|Tags: Amy Abugo Ongiri, Asa Sullivan, Khalil Sullivan, Black Lives Matter, Essay, Slave narratives, #BlackLivesMatter, #WritersResist|

By Amy Abugo Ongiri Asa Sullivan didn’t want to go back to jail and he shouldn’t have had to. But, on June 6, 2006, neighbors in a rapidly gentrifying area of San Francisco called the police to report what they believed to be suspicious behavior. Though they did not have a search warrant, police entered [...]

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