Birmingham’s first youth poet fellow praises the arts, ‘Black women representation’
The State of Alabama and the City of Birmingham both have poet laureates in Ashley Jones and Salaam Green, respectively. Meet ...
A Palestinian Refugee Becomes a Jewish Israeli in This Novel
Elias Khoury’s “Children of the Ghetto” series continues with a young man switching identities in a society seeking to erase ...
People can't tell when a poem is written by AI
Apparently, the complexity of human poetry was mistaken for confusing AI rambling. By avoiding the complexity often found in ...
Column: Being Black and going country is not a contradiction — just ask sister-act BoykinZ
The four sisters from Georgia fit right into the genre's tradition of storytelling, and use it to connect, not divide.
The loss of sound in our noisy lives
Sound memory fades faster than visual memory. In a world as rapidly changing as ours, a museum of endangered sounds makes ...
Meeting Black author of 'Trumbull Park' sets a South Side child on a writing career
Opoku's family moved into the Trumbull Park Homes in the '50s, where they encountered hatred from white neighbors and where ...
What Democrats Can Learn from America’s First Black Voters
After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.
The Best Kids Books on Race and Racism
David Elmo Cooper, hailing from Brooklyn, New York, discovered his love of art, specifically comic books and graffiti, at a ...
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This Black queer artist is painting their vision for an inclusive trans utopia
With a paintbrush in one hand and a camera in the other, Gatekeeper Adrian is on a mission to reimagine what it means to be ...
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The Bob Dylan Lyric That Imagined a Whole World on a Single Street
Bob Dylan hit a songwriting peak in the mid-1960s that might just be unrivaled in the history of popular music. Writing and ...
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I Was One Of The Only Nonwhite Kids In My School. Here's What I Wish I Could Tell My Younger Self.
Who wanted to tell their parents that they had an ugly child? I grew up with a Japanese mother ... trail and debate stage — politics aside — I feel wonder and awe. A half-Black, half-South Asian woman ...
How Music and Art Have Helped Black Americans Weather Troubling Times
In 1975, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes laid down a melodic mandate that applies to our times: “Wake up, everybody / No more ...