I was born a Black woman
and now
I am become a Palestinian
against the relentless laughter of evil
there is less and less living room
and where are my loved ones?
—June Jordan, Moving Towards Home
Editor’s note: June Jordan wrote this poem in 1982, after Sabra and Shatila. This week, as the world marked the forty-second anniversary of Sabra and Shatila, Israel carried out...
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Editor’s note: It has been 200 days since Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire to protest the United States-Israel genocide in Gaza. In solidarity and unwavering resistance, we offer this found abecedarian, drawn from “Burnt Offerings” by Erik Baker, and other sources.
Aaron...
In 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democrats spoke at the Democratic National Convention, despite attempts to suppress them. Fannie Lou Hamer’s televised testimony of being threatened and nearly beaten to death, to prevent her registering Black Mississipians to vote, turned the political tide in the United States. Subsequent pressure from the American populace forced President Lyndon B. Johnson to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Sixty years later, in 2024, Uncommitted Democrat delegates were denied a chance to speak at the DNC.
Both the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Uncommitted delegations were democratically elected representatives of Democrat voters. Both supported the National Democratic Party under the condition of true democratic representation of the...
IN HER ACCEPTANCE SPEECH for the DNC’s nomination, Kamala Harris promised to secure the nation’s borders and to advance U.S. security and values abroad. She assured voters that under her leadership, America will have “the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.” The expansion of US military bases in Africa through the AFRICOM program, alongside efforts to control energy and mineral resources in Sudan and Congo, are examples of what the most lethal fighting force in the world does. The record shows, in fact, that the U.S. consistently works to destabilize progressive governments and enable genocides. In a key moment of her speech, Harris reaffirmed the United...
Jim,
I expect you would be surprised that your death affected me so much, that I spoke at two services for you, that I am writing about you now. We were friends, but we had not stayed in touch. So, it surprises me too. But you were a friend to me during a difficult time.
In one of your stories that we read in our fiction workshop, a twenty-three-year-old small-town New Hampshire boy named James Foley teaches inner-city middle school kids in Phoenix. Mr. Foley’s handwriting resembled a seventh-grade boy’s, he once attended a “Midwestern Jesuit drinking college, still keeps the same college-boy haircut [and has] no teaching skills, [loses his] temper, puts student papers in trash bags, often spills coffee on himself, and looks the wrong way at Marisela...
