High John, Ole Massa and De Indigo Deer
On one of them back break'n plantations down in the lowcountry is where John lived. Where field hands, from sun up to sun down, picked sea island cotton and rice sheafs till their hands bled numb.
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Southern politics
The Memphis data center moratorium is about putting people first, not corporations
Across the country and across party lines, 65% of Americans are opposed to the construction of new large-scale data centers in their communities.
Arts & Soul
Kindred
We are kin, not by crime or country, but by the fierce, shared knowing that we were always more than where they tried to put us.
Race & Place
The World Has Risen for Palestine. Houston Must Rise Too.
The Palestinian people deserve justice. They deserve to live in peace in their homeland. A single hair on the head of a maimed Palestinian child is as heavy as the U.S.-made bomb used to kill him. And no political jargon is strong enough to convince the people of Houston to accept our city's infrastructure being…
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Essays & Letters
Surviving Fascism: Lessons from Jim Crow
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