Utopia in Dark Times
In this turbulent historical moment, I find myself often reflecting on Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower . Butler
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Religion
Remembering Ronald (X) Stokes and the Politics of Black Solidarity
It has been 60 years since the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) killed Ronald (X) Stokes, wounded several others, and
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Malcolm X’s Gospel
In April 1957, Malcolm X began writing his “God’s Angry Men” column in the New York Amsterdam News, immediately after the brutal police
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Mystic Stories From The Sketchbooks of Henry Ossawa Tanner, Part 2
For Part One from last week, click here. Since its publication in 1969, the biography written by Marcia M. Mathews
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Mystic Stories From The Sketchbooks of Henry Ossawa Tanner
In addition to making paintings, Henry Ossawa Tanner also expressed his creativity by writing stories. Most of them sit silently
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