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A Bullet for a Box of Diapers
Little son,
I am sorry.
Not the kind of sorry
people say when the room gets quiet.
The kind that kneels.
The kind that cannot stand
after seeing your little shoes
with no future in them.
You were supposed to be t...
Something Good Left
Author, Robert Jones, Jr., helping give out Juneteenth care packages in Harlem last summer.
Juneteenth marks the day when the news of emancipation finally reached enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after freedo...
The Architecture of the Cage
A protester holds a sign as ICE agents stand guard outside the Delaney Hall detention center during a protest against the transfer of detainees, May 26, 2026, in Newark, New Jersey. Credit: Andres Kudacki/AP Photo
The first thing America t...
The New York Times Asked Me About Masculinity
A few years ago, I wrote Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood, a book that emerged from a question I had been carrying for years: what does patriarchy actually do to us?
We often talk about patriarchy as though it is merely a syste...
Against Indifference
I have to be honest, I’ve been struggling lately in the way I imagine many of you have been struggling, which is to say I have been waking each morning into the unbearable mathematics of human suffering. Too many bodies beneath too much rub...
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