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Refusing the Empire’s Assignments (opens the original)
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One of my favorite Beatles’s song is “Blackbird”:Blackbird singing in the dead of nightTake these broken wings and learn to flyAll your lifeYou were only waiting for this moment to ariseBlackbird singing in the dead of nightTake these sunken eyes and learn to seeAll your lifeYou were only waiting for this moment to be freeBlackbird, flyInto the light of the dark black nightPaul McCartney wrote this song in 1968 and says the song was inspired by Black women in the Americ
The Clap Back of the Canaanite (opens the original)
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Every summer, during Black August and Charlotte Pride, I try to re-read Sister Outsider by the incredible Black queer feminist poet Audre Lorde — especially her essays “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” and “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.”Lorde writes: “I have come to believe over and over again that wh… Read more
God Hates Displacement (opens the original)
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Sociologist Matthew Desmond spent years living alongside families in Milwaukee who were losing their homes, and he told their stories in the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Evicted. One of those stories was about a mother named Arleen who wanted what all of us want for our families—a roof over her head, a safe place to raise her two boys, a door that locked, and a house with A/C in the summer. But Arleen was poor, and in this country being poor is a dangerous thing to be, especially when you need a
500 Years of Resistance (opens the original)
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It all began exactly 500 years ago in July of 1526 when a self-professed Christian named Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, a wealthy slaveholder and official in the Spanish colony on Hispaniola, received a capitulación or royal land grant from the king of Spain to settle a great swath of North America, particularly what is now the Carolinas and Georgia. The problem, of course, was that there were already people living in this region, perhaps as many as 100,000, including the Muskogean-speaking groups of
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