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by C. Imani Williams Findings from The National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs reports 1 in 5 children between the ages of 12-17 have special needs. For Black children, however, that number increases as they are more likely to be identified as persons with disabilities. On top of this stark disparity, Black […]

I am one of those people who attempted to (and probably failed at) ignoring the presidential race for much of 2016. The prospect of potentially having to choose between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was grief inducing enough but to watch the campaign antics in real-time felt like a malignant form of self-harm. However, now […]

According to a report released by the Center for American Progress and the National Education Association, U.S. teachers are nowhere near as diverse as their students. The report seeks to call attention to what researchers refer to as the “diversity gap” at elementary and secondary schools in the country. 

Sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that African Americans have the right to the same educational benefits as whites. But according to civil rights data released by the Education Department, inequities for blacks and other minorities and those with disabilities still exist. 

By: Daniel Anthony   When Kofi heard that his clinic was closing, he panicked, wondering where else he could get the medication he depended on to stay alive. “I was scared because I didn’t know where I was going to get my medication,” the 30-year-old gay man said. For years, US-funded clinics were a vital […]

By. Kourtney K Galloway I have noticed there is a certain kind of ambition that gets handed to young Black folks in smaller Southern cities, almost like it is just the obvious next step: leave. Go somewhere bigger. Find more opportunities. Build your network. Get some experience, make some money, and maybe come back later, […]

A Difficult Miracle: Black Poetics in a Time of Crisis  By Jari Bradley  Prior to the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, I had never been to a writer’s retreat or a poetry workshop, period. The year was 2015, a year at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, a time when the entire country felt […]

By Norrell Edwards, PhD The hypnotic pale blue waves crash against large grey stones; it’s so peaceful—it’s easy to forget we’re at the site of unimaginable historic violence. With my students scattered around me, I stand on haunted ground, Cape Coast Slave Castle and Dungeon.  We’re just a few footsteps from centuries old cannons, right […]

By: Daniel Johnson As the Women’s National Basketball Association marks its 30th, and arguably best season to date, the league’s labor union delivered a landmark collective bargaining agreement in women’s sports. The transformative CBA had the effect of allowing the league’s athletic workers to continue the player-centric momentum which was started in earnest in July […]

By Juahl Ganaway Zeinabu irene Davis’s 1999 film Compensation functions as both an homage to early Black cinema and a speculative intervention into its absences. Compensation refuses to let material survival determine the boundaries of Black film history. The film is told through twin narratives, one set in 1910s Chicago and the other in the […]

By: Chaz Barracks, PhD In a poignant dialogue between two Black trans women who are media influencers, TS Madison and Alexis Sno Legend refuse the respectability politics and binary thinking that often constrain mainstream Black queer representation. Together, they demonstrate how Black queer people reclaim agency and use the digital space to perform and be […]

By: Amber Butts   There’s always a reason the dead had to die. This country is very practiced at explaining itself, searching the dead for a reason before it admits to killing them, rifling through whatever they left behind. Alex Pretti was thirty-seven years old, an ICU nurse in Minneapolis protesting federal immigration raids when […]