Opinion

Resurrecting Dinosaurs

Resurrecting Dinosaurs

My elevator speech when describing my work as editor of Good Faith Magazine often includes the self-deprecating use of the word “dinosaur.” It’s a nod to the reality that we’re producing a very old form of media—one that’s declining rapidly.

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African Americans Don’t Hang Themselves From Trees

African Americans Don’t Hang Themselves From Trees

It’s 2025. Once considered a futuristic number, Earl Smith and Demartravion “Trey” Reed were found hanging from trees in New York and Mississippi. Evidence that America has not turned over a new leaf when it comes to “race relations,” its cities continue to bear this “strange fruit.”

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Keep on Dreaming: A Remedy for ‘Black Fatigue’

Keep on Dreaming: A Remedy for ‘Black Fatigue’

More than halfway through the first year of Donald Trump’s second term as president of the United States and I am wishing African Americans the sweetest of dreams. In fact, I hope they fluff their pillow, turn over and keep on dreaming. Because white-body supremacy is exhausting.

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Where Do We Place Our Pain?

Where Do We Place Our Pain?

The great question of pain is where we place it. Do we process, express and honor it, transforming it into clean pain? Or do we force it into the people we perceive as less than human—immigrant, migrant, anyone who isn’t white or male—turning it into a weaponized dirty pain?

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