Moving Towards Life
Exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Marina Magloire assembles an archive of a Black feminist falling-out over Zionism. In Jordan’s handwritten notes for her 1990 essay, “Intifada,…
Whiteness Riots
Whiteness riots have familiar features: police partisanship, local and national media fomentation, moral panics about crime and ‘race-mixing’, followed by calls for new criminal and immigration legislation.
Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)
By Muriel Rukeyser
Laurence Fishburne reads a former slave’s incredible letter to his old master
In 1864, Jourdon Anderson and his wife escaped a life of slavery and moved to Ohio. A year later, he received a desperate letter from the man who used to…
Laylah Ali in “Power” – Season 3 – “Art in the Twenty-First Century” | Art21
Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring Laylah Ali, from the "Power" episode in Season 3 of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series. "Power" premiered in September 2005 on…
Neolithic population collapse may have been caused by plague, researchers say
A devastating population collapse that decimated stone age farming communities across northern Europe 5,000 years ago may have been driven by an outbreak of the plague, according to research. The…
Towers of Silence
this story is about a specific thing but also about how a system collapses when the keystone is removed
Broken Windows and Broken Policing
from 8 August 2020 Rudy Giuliani’s ‘zero tolerance’ attitude to community policing was rooted not in right-wing talking points, but in the liberal politics of the Civil Rights era. In…
Secrets of the Planet of the Apes, with Josh Friedman
The Planet of the Apes franchise spans decades and formats: it started as a French novel in 1963, and then jumped the Atlantic to become a long-running series of movies,…
We Should All Be Archivists
When people ask me for advice about queer archiving, I usually say that the most important thing is to recognize your importance. You need to see yourself as a as…