When I told my father that I was visiting Montgomery, his only reaction was fear — a bone-deep memory of water hoses and fire bombings, billy clubs and rough nooses. ...
On May 6, 2018 / By Sebastian JohnsonWhat a privilege it must be for people to be able to identify you, to place you correctly in the American mosaic with just one look. Not to ...
On February 24, 2018 / By Dolores Johnson“I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia . . . My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, ...
On February 18, 2018 / By Sari BorenI stood in the fourth-floor lounge at Cambridge Innovation Center, my gaze switching back and forth between the innovators—who were drinking their morning coffees and teas—and the Syrian ...
On October 2, 2017 / By Boyah J. FarahAs Muslim-Americans, we need to play a more active role in defining our faith, or will continue to have others define it for us The tantalizing smell of ...
On May 2, 2017 / By Nadia ViswanathLast week, capping off a successful awards season, Mahershala Ali won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Moonlight–the first time a Muslim has ...
On March 11, 2017 / By Yahya ChaudhryThoughts in response to a friend asking, after grand catastrophe: “What can we do?” We ask each other in times of trouble: “What can we do — about ...
On February 11, 2017 / By Kim StaffordIn this moment, America is not mine. It cannot be—it is not like anything I have seen. I came here in 2007, one year before Barack Obama was ...
On February 3, 2017 / By Shanoor SeervaiInauguration Day, 2017 The new patriot is a listener. The new citizen talks to strangers. The new continental congress convenes at bus stops, taverns and cafes, parking ...
On January 31, 2017 / By Kim StaffordThis article is being published in collaboration with the Kennedy School Review. One day last fall, at a small campus in the heart of New England, I stood ...
On January 22, 2017 / By Elorm Avakame“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” — Milan Kundera I. Invention One of the first documentations of African people in British ...
On January 21, 2017 / By Sebastian JohnsonOver the long Veterans Day weekend, I’m hitting the final lap on the world’s most procrastinated thesis. I’m focusing on Virginia Woolf—specifically, on how she writes about World ...
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