Driving through the Avondale area this past weekend, a cluster of signs along the street piqued my interest. It was for a new school and I hastily entered the name into Google on my phone so that I could explore it further when I wasn’t driving. The name of the school is Magic City Acceptance…
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by Romano and Tenenti
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley 1948, Los Angeles: The mortgage payment’s coming due, so Easy Rawlins accepts the assignment of finding Daphne Monet, a blonde torch singer with a penchant for jazz and criminal black consorts. In his search through a sleazy, fearful city, he is lucky to be under the protection of the murderous Mouse who wants a piece of the…
“Abraham Flexner, promotor intelectual del Instituto de Estudios Avanzados de Princeton y quien fuera su director entre 1930 y 1939, publicó este escrito días después del inicio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando el odio irracional amenazaba a la civilización, así como la democracia hoy peligra bajo el impulso ultra racional de la utilidad inmediata. En este escrito Flexner señala que la vida intelectual y espiritual -propia de los centros donde se busca yse cultiva el conocimiento- es una forma inútil de actividad que brinda mayores satisfacciones de las que seobtendrían de otra manera.”
To celebrate the life and teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, the Homewood Public Library Teen Advisory Board created the We Are The Dream project. Their idea was to hold a creative contest where other local 6th-12th graders could submit artwork or a poem/story that was inspired by the messages of Dr. King. From…
dark // thing by Ashley M. Jones dark // thing is a multi-faceted work that explores the darkness/otherness by which the world sees Black people. Ashley M. Jones stares directly into the face of the racism that allows people to be seen as dark things, as objects that can be killed/enslaved/oppressed/devalued. This work, full as it…
