The Cardboard Box By Hayden Von Coombs Share LISTEN Essays Content Warning: This essay contains sensitive and potentially distressing content related to death, miscarriage, and depression. Reader discretion is advised. The cardboard box looked unremarkable—its exterior marred by a few
The Collection:Chapter 1Mingus Ah Um By Amari Pleasant Share Essays It has been a few weeks since I returned home from Little Rock. The steady flow of raindrops pounds the windows surrounding my family room. Several albums from my dad’s
Why We Write By D. Rodrigues-Martin Share LISTEN Essays Writers write because we must, but why we must is always a story in itself. I started writing when I was eighteen—mostly poetry, mostly about unrequited love for a dark-haired girl
A Revelation Birthed from African American Culture By Jasmine M. Taylor Share LISTEN Essays A slew of faces, both young and old, look toward the stage; they are present and alert. People from near and far occupy the seats of
The Collection:Introduction By Amari Pleasant Share Essays “9:39” – is the time my phone reveals as I quietly sit on the floor surrounded by old worn boxes full of musty vinyl LPs in my dad’s former bedroom. A few months
A Thousand Faces By Paul Hostovsky Share LISTEN Essays I recently watched the movie CODA, for which Troy Kotsur, who is Deaf, won an Academy Award. Kudos to Kotsur! I liked the film, parts of it, but there were other
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