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Past issues

April 8, 2022

The Comeback

“I’m a person still, and I’m my person.”

April 1, 2022

The Test

“If you don’t handle your own business, a project is just a projection.”

March 25, 2022

The Pragmatism of Police Abolition

“You have earned this spot. You are worthy. You are a great American.”

March 18, 2022

Police Funding Fantasy

“Everything you’re going through is preparing you for what you asked God for.”

March 11, 2022

The Southernization of America

“Imagine if Tom Brady were being held by Russian officials right now.”

March 4, 2022

300 Days Later

“This is a movement. Baby, we moving.”

February 25, 2022

Inventing Rock and Roll

“The secret to capitalism’s survival is racism.”

February 18, 2022

Living Single

“No one is late. No one is left out. No one is wrong. No one is bad.”

February 11, 2022

Bigotry Denial Syndrome

“He was a very attractive, very charismatic, fly type of individual.”

February 4, 2022

Criminal Justice Subversion

“There are no good prisons.”

January 28, 2022

The War on Reading

“Good morning, Gorgeous. I love you. I got you. I need you.”

January 21, 2022

The Real King

“I have certain clothes just to go to Karl Lagerfeld’s house for vacation.”

January 14, 2022

Legendary

“The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you.”

January 7, 2022

Why She Quit

“You are Atlanta magic.”

December 31, 2021

The Harp

“We, too, are beautiful.”

December 24, 2021

Surviving Southern Healthcare

“Oh why oh why must Christmas come but once a year?”

December 17, 2021

The Wronged Man

“If they see you free all week, they won’t pay to see you on the weekend.”

December 10, 2021

The Church of Coltrane

“To begin again isn't to go backwards, but to decide to go.”

December 3, 2021

The Designer of Progress

“I operate by my own rules, in my own logic, and I’m not fearful.”

November 26, 2021

Black Subjugation

“I can’t just quit.”

November 19, 2021

Unanswered Questions

“It’s like Tiger Woods is number one and his brother is number two.”

November 12, 2021

Appeasement Politics

“I came here to die, not to make a speech.”

November 5, 2021

Ignoring Race

“For us to even be here is a wildest dream.”

October 29, 2021

Discovering a Black Jesus

“Who is the clown that said money don’t grow on trees?”

October 22, 2021

Triangulation

“Everybody wants to be black until the police show up.”

October 15, 2021

A New Poll Tax

“They want me to show up in my wings.”

October 8, 2021

Democratic Apathy

“I have the privilege of making stuff up.”

October 1, 2021

Escaping Poverty

“Dress fly. Do good in school. Fight.”

September 24, 2021

Why They Came

“The right story at the right time can heal the world.”

September 17, 2021

Black Capitalism

“You are beautiful because of how you treat people.”

September 10, 2021

A Man with a Code

“Being Black in America is being Black in America, and it ain’t easy.”

September 3, 2021

Folk Devil Redux

“I got it — it’s mine, my wave.”

August 27, 2021

One in a Million

“It’s the freest place I’ve ever been.”

August 20, 2021

Standing Alone

“In Atlantica, we can solve everything.”

August 13, 2021

Beyoncé’s Evolution

“Faith without work is dead.”

August 6, 2021

The Night Of

“I laugh the most, I smile the most, I breathe the most.”

July 30, 2021

The Power of ‘No’

“You might catch the Holy Ghost!”

July 23, 2021

Black Exceptionalism

“Leave me out if you want. I’ll come in another door!”

July 16, 2021

American Girl

“She looks like a Cosby kid made in heaven.”

July 9, 2021

The Chaos Before

“Just about anything I do, I’m good at.”

July 2, 2021

Black Woodstock

“I just want my braids to breathe.”

June 25, 2021

Faux Controversy

“A vessel for flyness, authenticity and cultural solidarity.”

June 18, 2021

Juneteenth

“We always tell each other: Don’t let your crown fall.”

June 11, 2021

German Lessons

“You’re a low wage worker, right?”

June 4, 2021

Promises Promises

“She’s nailed a lifetime’s worth of vision-board visions in less than a decade.”

May 28, 2021

Greenwood

“If one of them starts to cry, she has to leave.”

May 21, 2021

Beyond The Fire

“I go to funerals. I go to earthquakes.”

May 14, 2021

Reimagining Police

“I say to myself that I never lose, that I only learn.”

May 7, 2021

Increasing Value

“Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.”

April 30, 2021

Baldwin’s Shadow

“History doesn’t implode, it expands.”

April 23, 2021

Slow Jam Takeover

“It’s the absence of curiosity that concerns me.”

April 16, 2021

The Golden Arches

“I’m sorry, you don’t do gospel.”