Had Happened
Donovan X. RamseyArchiving yesterday, observing today, considering tomorrow...
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A Warning from a City in the Dark
“Black Painting” by Kerry James Marshall. 2003.
For nine days, people in Gary, Indiana, have been learning how much electricity holds together. Food. Medicine. Work. Sleep. A charged phone. A few degrees of cool air. All of it becomes hard...
Vanishing Ink, Rising Voices
What looks like an ending may also be a once-in-a-generation opening to rebuild Black storytelling from the ground up.
Accountability Is Not What You Think It Is
You can criticize an institution—or individual—from a distance. Accountability requires something more.
Every week, a Black institution or person becomes available for public judgment. This week, it was both Howard and Tuskegee universitie...
Of Margins and Mission
Making sense of the Howard University enrollment crisis.
Isabella Williams had already packed her truck in Alabama, preparing for the drive to Washington and the start of her life at her dream school. In Knoxville, Tennessee, A’Zariah Mile...
'Insubordinate'
Black boys are often disciplined for failing to fit institutions that have made too little room for how they think, move, question, and learn.
I was the kind of child who believed school had been made for me.
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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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