Essays
The Collection: Chapter 5 – Time Out
After placing the Super Fly album back on the shelf, I randomly pull…
Amari Pleasant
The Collection: Chapter 4 – Super Fly
The sensation of fondness fills my body as I look at the somewhat worn album cover.
Amari Pleasant
Brown Woman Writing
I had accumulated 8 Incomplete grades by the third year of my Ph.D program.
Ghazah Abbasi
The Collection: Chapter 3 – Caught Up
With my feet resting on a brown ottoman bench, I take a sip of rum…
Amari Pleasant
Of Work and Wealth
For fifteen years I was a teacher of youth.
W.E.B. DuBois
The Collection: Chapter 2 – freeflight
“Recorded in performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival – admad jamal – freeflight,”…
Amari Pleasant
The Cardboard Box
The cardboard box looked unremarkable—its exterior marred by a few scrapes and its corners rounded over time…
Hayden Von Coombs
The Collection: Chapter 1 – Mingus Ah Um
It has been a few weeks since I returned home from Little Rock.
Amari Pleasant
A Thousand Faces
I recently watched the movie CODA, for which Troy Kotsur, who is Deaf, won an Academy Award. Kudos to Kotsur!
Paul Hostovsky
A Revelation Birthed from African American Culture
A slew of faces, both young and old, look toward the stage
Jasmine M. Taylor
The Collection: Introduction
“9:39” – is the time my phone reveals as I quietly sit
Amari Pleasant
Why We Write
Writers write because we must, but why we must is always a story in itself.
D. Rodrigues-Martin
