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Reporting From Within I took myself out to go see Dune: Part II. It was after teaching a class on Zora Neale Hurston’s work, her story “Sweat”. After we pondered in class on how it was possible she took a radical conservative side in her career, a side which defended politician Spessard L. Holland’s support for segregation at the time. She even opposed the 1954 desegregation decision. Perhaps it was just me who pondered. Well, the student

As The Blood Settles My wife works the same shift as me. After work, after we both eat, we get on our phones and watch the videos that continuously appear one after the other. We rarely receive the same videos. On her phone, she gets videos of ancient history, people talking about how the indigenous people of the Americas were almost wiped out on Earth because of colonization. Videos pop on her screen too from people in the new colonies on Mars. She tells me how i

When Will We Stop Detaining Our Children? I get out my car in the particular stillness of a 6:00 a.m. morning. It looks like night time still, but I know it’s another day. I adjust my laptop bag over my shoulder, and pick up my pace. The American flag stands idle in the middle of the parking lot. In my head, I go over what I am about to teach in the classroom within the building of a unique program where children are detained because of their illegal entry to the U.S. It is

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