Dale M. Brumfield·Oct 28Millie Christine was the “Two-Headed Nightingale”Born into slavery, two unusual sisters built a life that early twentieth-century writers struggled to describe
Skin of Sin - Nancy Silver·Oct 24Jim Crow and the Vote in Louisiana: Disenfranchisement Under the 1898 ConstitutionPoll taxes, understanding tests, and registrar discretion turned a large Black electorate into 600 voters — and it lasted until 1965.
Kathryn Ruby·Oct 16HereIt comes to us the way a quilt comes to be, in scraps, each one cut from a different cloth and stitched by a different hand: from the…
Kathryn Ruby·Sep 26Elwyn Ward: The TreatyWe four rode with him for the better part of twenty years and never once heard him say where he was from, which in the Delta is a strange…
Amani Nkere·Sep 16Shadow Work in Motion: A Personal Reflection on Ethnic NotionsWatching Marlon Riggs’ Ethnic Notions feels less like viewing a documentary and more like undergoing a cultural MRI, one that scans the…
Carlos Wallace·Aug 19The Price After Freedom: What Was Taken and What It Means Now (III)When Loss Becomes Generational
InThe PolisbyMark Calee-Empathy...Power!·Jul 9We Could Have Won This Case — Here’s the Constitutional Argument That MatteredWhy Administrative “Election Integrity” Has a Dangerous HistoryA response icon2A response icon2
InDispatches From ExilebyProfessor Cosmic·May 27Better Angels, Broken PromisesThe arc of the moral universe [still] bends toward justice
