Who counts as a citizen, and what does it take to become counted? Claudia Rankine addresses this question in her 2014 book, Citizen: An American
It was probably typically male of me to think I could simply avoid it. As a male reader, I wasn’t sure what to think when
I have long rejected the imagery of the school-to-prison pipeline. Pipelines have an end. The steps that lead to and reinforce mass incarceration, as Bruce
I never thought about orange. When I learned the orange tip was removed from the toy gun that Tamir Rice was playing with when he
She keeps a gratitude journal. It was almost time to head to a Cleveland women’s shelter for the twice-monthly book club I lead, and I
I’d heard about Joan Southgate’s walk long before I finally found her book, In Their Path: A Grandmother’s 519-mile Underground Railroad Walk (written with co-author
I first came across Reginald Dwayne Betts when I read his poem, “When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving.” Along with the power of
Cities are neither coming back nor declining. Instead, they’re doing both at the same time. Author J. Mark Souther, a professor at Cleveland State University,
Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, should be for poverty what Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle was to the
With the recent sentencing of former officer Michael Slager for the murder of Walter Scott fresh in the news, it is easy and right to
