For the Fall 2022 special issue of MQR, “Fractured Union: American Democracy on the Brink,” we reached out to a range of esteemed authors to write short essays that respond to Langston Hughes’s poem “Let America Be America Again.” For more from the special folio, “On Langston Hughes’s ‘Let America Be America Again,’” you can purchase the …
after John Murillo they tell me to set up an auto-reply, that i have a computer to respond to messages of children’s chalky exhaustion, after another one of our bodies lies on pavement. cold and not so sudden. here i am, thinking of this and that. they tell me, i tell me, i should be …
again this week, they killed another child who looked like my brother Read More »
The United States is a nation with a deeply entrenched caste system. To understand American history, especially the recent rise in populism and right-wing extremism, an understanding of its caste system is essential. The populism and identity politics ushered in by Donald Trump are the culmination of this desire for revenge against those espousing anti-caste …
For the Fall 2022 special issue of MQR, “Fractured Union: American Democracy on the Brink,” we reached out to a range of esteemed authors to write short essays that respond to Langston Hughes’s poem “Let America Be America Again.” America is America: it’s a tautology. But it’s also a falsehood: America is not and never was the …
City Settles Lawsuit Over Handcuffed Man Killed By Police. i choose to believe he’s an angel. not that this death is heroic. there is no honor in dying this way. 2 Of The Officers Involved In George Floyd’s Death Will Testify During Federal Civil Rights Trial. whose rights are civil. i tell my nephew to …
