How SCOTUS Turned America’s 250th Birthday Into a Burial
This is what the Court has often done when our freedom got out ahead of the country’s appetite for it. It reaches back. It calls our undoing a vindication of principle.
In Da Club, We’re All Fam!: The Importance Of Belonging and Third Space
Sociologist Ray Oldenburg popularized the term “third place” in his 1989 book The Great Good Place, arguing that informal gathering spaces are essential to civic life and healthy communities. A third space is what exists beyond home and work: the places where people gather, build trust, exchange ideas, and create culture in real time. It is where community stops being abstract and becomes something lived.
How a Minneapolis man became “Dissent Dad” in the face of ICE’s blitz
For Twin Cities residents, the upheaval is just the latest trauma to hit Minneapolis and St. Paul, which also witnessed and protested the murders of Philando Castile and George Floyd in the last 10 years.
That’s why one, a father of two, refuses to be silent—both in calling out injustice and creating the community he wants for himself and his family—not matter what it costs.
Grief in a zero-sum America
There are seasons when a nation mistakes speed for clarity. When information multiplies but wisdom thins. And when outrage travels faster than understanding. This feels like one of those seasons. We are awash in data. We can measure almost anything. We can predict markets, track storms, map genomes, and automate memory.
Jesse Jackson and the arc of Black hope
A population stuck in survival mode cannot organize, cannot protest, and cannot imagine an alternative. When hunger becomes normalized, it becomes far more insidious.
The requirement of memory
A population stuck in survival mode cannot organize, cannot protest, and cannot imagine an alternative. When hunger becomes normalized, it becomes far more insidious.
Hunger Is The Point
A population stuck in survival mode cannot organize, cannot protest, and cannot imagine an alternative. When hunger becomes normalized, it becomes far more insidious.
Who Deserves To Take The Field?: Bad Bunny and the Fear of Representation
The NFL and Roc Nation had just announced that Bad Bunny would headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show at Levi’s Stadium next February, and MAGA world (not known for their measured response) immediately lost it.
What Would Martin See in the Smoke
It is hard to write about Israel and Gaza. Hard because words stumble where pain reigns. Hard because truth, once spoken, too often finds itself drafted into war. Words are weapons. But still, I write. Because silence, too, is a weapon. Sometimes it is the most deadly.
History Doesn’t Whisper — It Warns
We’d watch news reels, Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda films, then analyze how the Nazis weaponized misinformation and masked discrimination and segregation of immigrants under the guise of nationalism and protecting citizens from a criminal element and a national drain threatening their overall quality of life and the economy. Sound familiar?