When Actions No Longer Exist
Language is a great way to communicate, and an even better way to avoid it altogether. This “Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar” ensures no one will ever decode what you’re really saying.Related...
View ArticleComplicating The New Jim Crow
At the New Yorker, Kelefa Sanneh discusses a new provocative book about current racial tensions in the US. The book, Black Silent Majority by Michael Javen Fortner, aims to complicate the idea that...
View ArticleThe Noise Came From Here
With the recent addition of the album MartyrLoserKing, artist and activist Saul Williams’s versatile body of work shows no signs of slowing its growth. In an interview with The Fader, he talks about...
View ArticleThe Man with the Biggest Mouth
“The guys with the biggest mouths are always the most fragile.”–Donald Trump, at a rally in New Orleans, March 4th 2016Leaving the airplane hangar, thousands of Trump 2016 signs sandwiched under the...
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Darryl Pinckney
A few pages into Darryl Pinckney’s latest novel, Black Deutschland, I added him to my bucket list of brilliant writers I wanted to have a conversation with. Throughout my teen years, James Baldwin was...
View ArticleArtists Respond to the Violence
The violence of the past days has left the nation in a state of shock, and citizens are reacting with the full range of human responses to crisis. Many artists can be counted among those who demand we...
View ArticleVince Staples’s Challenge
Vince Staples appeared on Hot 97 recently to deliver a freestyle, challenging #BlackLivesMatter protestors to make the future brighter through positive community action, among many other things. (He...
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United We Stand
Across the country and around the world, people have joined together to protest against President-elect Donald Trump and all that his campaign has stood for. These protests serve to unify, to bring...
View ArticleRevolutionary Anger: Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad
Facebook has become a pit of horror. Every day, I read distressing recollections from colleagues and friends. #MeToo and #WhyIDidntReport, content warnings and rape testimonies from college campuses to...
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We Stand with the People
Dear readers, We have been and will always be committed to the work of Black, PoC, women, LGBTQIA+, disabled, and all marginalized peoples. It is with a heavy heart that we have seen the current...
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