The Use of Force Continuum: Police, Power, and Prejudice
by Joe Ponce In Beavercreek, Ohio, under the glaringly white fluorescent lights of a Walmart superstore, John Crawford III walked around idly holding a BB gun he’d picked up from... Read More
Survival Guide For Animals Born In Captivity
by Camille Rankine
The trick is to get on the ground and fold
yourself into a small, soft shape.
How to Not Get Killed by the NYPD
by Metta Sáma When you see the pitch-perfect black 4-door shaded windows roll up on you, don’t grip your wheel. Casually look over your shoulder as a shaded window slips... Read More
Two Poems to #StandWithFerguson
CONVERGENCE by Nancy Bevilaqua For Gaza, for Ferguson Back behind the barricades they’re saying what the looting means. Call it full-stop mercenary. Manholes steam. Fortune for the one... Read More
I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against A Sharp White Background: An Elegy
Photo credit: Stacy Parker Le Melle, from #NMOS14 vigil, Harlem, NYC. by Morgan Parker After Glenn Ligon after Zora Neale... Read More