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A History of No Child Left Behind and the HISD Takeover
Where white and middle-class children are able to rely on cultural indicators to pass exams, minority and low-income students are subject to drills on the particular form of the test, multiple-choice questions, and specific writing skills that not only trade off with substantive learning, but actively "de-skills" students' existing higher-order problem-solving and thinking.
Southesque: On Oklahoma's Disputed Southern Status
There are a multitude of Southerness markers that Oklahoma easily meets, which leaves its status as irrefutable, for better at times and for worse other times.
Louisiana's Revolutionary: The Making of Imam Jamil al-Amin
"Individuals do not create rebellions, conditions do." —Imam Jamil al-Amin (née H. Rap Brown), 1969. Excerpt from Which Way USA? Black Views On Race. Imam Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, the Black Power revolutionary and political prisoner formerly known as H. Rap Brown, died in federal prison on November 23, 2025 at the age of 82. He…
Out of Bounds: The NAACP's SEC football boycott misunderstands the assignment
As long as the United States empowers a judicial and legislative apparatus that views Black political equity as an existential threat to its fabric, democracy will remain a dangerous game.
Why I started a record label (and other people should, too)
While DIY music culture has typically been credited as being pioneered by the white- and male-dominated punk and later hardcore scenes of the 1970s and 1980s, independent (or DIY) labels have been historic markers in the fight for creative and financial independence for artists of all genres—particularly Black artists—since as early as the 1920s.
World War Z and the Hollywood hasbara apparatus
A century of Hollywood hasbara has worked to desensitize Western audiences to Israel's war crimes and to normalize the prioritization of Israel's political and military interests. The entertainment industry's complicity is a necropolitical tool of zombifying Palestinians and sustaining Israel's death-world.