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Asphalt Altar

By Onaje X. O. Woodbine | May 5, 2016

From the violence of the streets to the ritual space of the asphalt court

Torn and tattered Confederate Flag

Battle Flag

By Caralyn Davis | June 26, 2015

I’ve lived my entire life in the South, first Georgia and now North Carolina, but I’ve never paid much attention to the Confederate battle flag, the so-called stars and bars. Despite some ancestors who fought for the Confederacy and several childhood family vacations spent navigating cannons, split-rail fences, and museums filled with the tattered remnants…

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On Black Anti-Semitism

By Alain Mabanckou | December 5, 2014

From the new memoir Letter To Jimmy (Soft Skull Press), translated from the French by Sara Meli Ansari.

Trees

Meet Black Judaism

By Sam Kestenbaum | October 22, 2014

“This is not some sort of act. This is what we do.”