Had Happened
Donovan X. RamseyArchiving yesterday, observing today, considering tomorrow...
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Thirty Years Later, ‘Girl 6’ Is Still Working
The actress arrives ready to perform. The director would rather she undress. That is the first professional disappointment in Girl 6, Spike Lee’s 1996 comedy about a woman trying to make a living with her talent, and it establishes a patter...
In the Dark, Surrounded
Charles White, Nobody Knows My Name #1 (1965.)
One night in my twenties, I crossed a Harlem street just to spare a woman the thought of me, and found myself alone with a danger I had forgotten to consider.
I was in graduate school then, w...
Dropping Bombs in the Diaspora Wars
A Haitian-American actor’s comments about Black American work ethic pulled me into an online melee—and a strange debate about whether my people have a right to claim the country we built.
I made the mistake of typing a few sentences on the...
Captive Audience
The screen brings us close enough to witness a public collapse but not close enough to stop it.
A famous person is online at three in the morning, posting with the frightening productivity of someone whose body has recently declared sleep...
All the Way to Love
bell hooks followed the threads of race, gender, class, and power until they led her to a radical theory of how we might live and love together.
Before the books, there was Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1952: a Black girl born between the hil...
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Donovan X. Ramsey is a journalist, author, and educator—an indispensable voice on issues of identity, justice, culture, and patterns of power in America.
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