Sublime

In 1979, police officers chased thirty-three-year-old insurance salesman Arthur McDuffie on his motorcycle, claiming he’d made a vulgar gesture at them. When McDuffie toppled off the bike, police removed his helmet, beat him to death, and then replaced the helmet. My father used to have a copy of a poem about this event on his wall, titled “Who Kil

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Alabama has relatively few writers to our name. As the saying goes, “Mississippians love their writers the way Alabama loves football.” In Alabama, Joan Didion noted “[t]he sense of sports being the opiate of the people. In all the small towns the high school gymnasium was not only the most resplendent part of the high school but often the most sol

the case that what we called Du Bois’s theory of racial cooperative economic development,7 combined with Hogan’s theory of Black self-help and the model of Mondragon Cooperative Corporation among the Basque people in northern Spain,

Miami’s proximity to Cuba made it an attractive tourist destination for elite European-descended Cubans who also sent their children to be educated in the United States. And over the course of the twentieth century, Overtown’s demographics expanded to include the descendants of freedpeople from Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados, and Haiti. In the late ni

Race itself was a deep silence, even when it slapped us in the face—as when, in Montgomery Ward one day, a white salesclerk slapped my mother. What I remember of this incident is not the initial violence, but my mother, hysterical, and my father, arms around her, hustling us all out of the store. I had never seen my mother scream and swear. For yea