The necropolitics of COVID-19
The first sentence of Achille Mbembe’s essay “Necropolitics” (2003) begins with the assertion that “the ultimate …
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The first sentence of Achille Mbembe’s essay “Necropolitics” (2003) begins with the assertion that “the ultimate …
Josephine Baker is one of those women who will always be more than they appeared on the surface. At first glance, she was a show performer, a fantastic and famous one at that. But her agenda fulfilled more than a few numbers and risqué dancing on stage. Josephine Baker was in…
Written By: Maya Williams George Abraham (they/them and he/him) uses the power of form to reclaim Palestinian identity. Their book Birthright is poetic collection of stories about displacement, memory, and resilience in Abraham’s journey as a queer nonbinary Palestinian American navigating mental health and autonomy in themself and their community. Abraham…
Some of Atlanta’s homeless residents have one less thing to stress about amid the coronavirus […] …
The NCAA will permit Division I spring-sport athletes — such as baseball, softball and lacrosse players — who had their seasons shortened by the coronavirus pandemic to have an additional year of eligibility. The NCAA Division I Council voted Monday to give spring-sport athletes regardless of their year in school a way…
Shaquille O’Neal is one of the best athletes the world has ever seen; but we can’t say the same for his dancing skills. The NBA legend and his sons, Shareef and Shaquir, did the viral Tik Tok dance to, “Lean wit It, Rock wit It” by Dem Franchize Boyz on Friday…
Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker‘s baby girl Blaze Tucker came into the world last November […] …
Spike Lee took to Instagram on Friday, March 27, and posted a scene that he […] …
A second line organizer accused of disobeying New Orleans’ coronavirus control measures over the weekend by refusing to disband a large funeral repast has been arrested. Cecil Spencer, 38, was taken into custody about 4:15 p.m. Monday and booked with violation of an emergency state proclamation, NOPD said in a news…
On the first morning of South Africa’s lockdown, a team of police officers and private security …
The church had no outward sign to indicate it was a place of worship. As I …
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — Lonnie Franklin, the convicted serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” who preyed on the women of South Los Angeles for more than two decades, has died in prison. He was 67. California corrections officials said Franklin was found unresponsive in his cell at San Quentin…
ATLANTA (AP) — The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery fought to end segregation, lived to see the election of the country’s first black president and echoed the call for “justice to roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream” in America. For more than four decades after the death of…
Franco-Cameroonian writer Léonora Miano published Rouge Impératrice in August 2019 (literal translation: Red Empress). Part romance …
On February 28, two weeks after Nigeria confirmed its first COVID-19 case, and one week after …