In this interview, the poet Marilyn Nelson discusses the role of community in a writer’s life, especially the kind of community she aims to foster at Soul Mountain Retreat, a writers’ colony she founded.
A review of Peter Goodwin Heltzel’s JESUS AND JUSTICE, a book that traces the historical legacy of evangelicalism, particularly in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr. and Carl F. H. Henry; describes the impact of this legacy on four contemporary evangelical organizations; and suggests new ways of understanding race and political life in America.
In this interview, artist Barry Moser discusses racism, religion, and working amidst mystery.
Allen Yeh discusses how living as an ethnic Asian in America can make one feel like a perpetual foreigner.
Abdel Shakur offers a reading of Michael Jackson’s music video “The Way You Make Me Feel” that exposes cultural stereotypes about biracial women.
In this poem, Allison Joseph reveals the truth about public transportation: it’s public.
This essay articulates how Derrida’s notion of hospitality may help us to overcome structural racism.
Racial reconciliation and the parable of the Good Samaritan are both centered on rightly defining who owns what.
Excerpts from Roger Ebert’s Journal, September 20, 2009 Every year good films show at the Toronto Film festival that never open anywhere near you. This year some good films played that may never open anywhere, even if you live in Toronto–or New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin or upstairs over a Landmark Theater […]
