By Iris Fluellen
Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson
A toxic pall had befallen the land, creating a miasma of despair for those who questioned the absurdity of it all. Like the line from that old Talking Heads song, “How did we get here?”
Writing as an act of revolution
By Iván Ríos Gascón
Art is a political act by nature. As society’s highest expression of culture and aesthetics, art exalts dream and thought, grace and virtue but it is not indifferent to barbarism, injustice, and suffering. Artistic creation is a sudden impulse or perhaps a lightning bolt of illumination but it is also an answer to individual or collective tragedy when it arises from a profound reflection of our being and the world we live in.
Refugees are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children. They are people.
By Sallie Latch
What if it was you whose life was suddenly interrupted by bombs, rockets and gunfire? What if your home was destroyed, all possessions gone and all 4 of your beloved children were shredded by a barrel bomb? What would it feel like to gather whomever was left of your family,
Just Housing
Host+Producer: Christopher D. Cantwell
Rev. Edward Thompson has been fighting injustice since he was eleven. Today he is a leader of Nashville Organized for Action and Hope, or NOAH, and one of their major issues has been increasing the stock of affordable housing in the city.
The Opposite of Resistance Is…
By Indu Subaiya
Los Angeles, California, November 7, 2016, the day before the election
At the kindergarten parent-teacher conference, Mrs. Perez says Nikolai is doing fine, but if it’s ok with us, she’d like to tell us about herself today. She’s scared about the election because her husband was deported once for a crime he didn’t commit,
Libertas in America
By Carol Harada
She started as an inspiration. A Frenchman had his heart pierced by the grandeur and beauty of the Nubian monuments at Abu Simbel in Egypt. Then he found his muse – a peasant woman, Egyptian, Muslim, dark. He decided to place the peasant woman with regal dignity as a colossal guardian at Port Said,
Where are the women in STEM?
By Eva Garces
Let’s talk about the gender disproportion of the scientific workforce. According to the Census Bureau’s 2009 American Community Survey, women comprise 48% of the American workforce but only make up 24% of those in STEM fields. It’s apparent that something is deterring women from the math and science fields,
Blue state girl’s adventures in Trumpland
By LiAnne Yu
Photo: Frank Boston
Over the last couple of months I’ve visited three states that went solidly for Donald Trump: Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri. My goal was to spend time with Trump voters, especially the white working class that overwhelmingly put him in office,
We need Hillary Clinton
By Fanny Diehl
It is high time for the Democratic Party to give thanks and praise to Hillary Clinton for her heartfelt campaign for president. I am losing patience with people saying that she was lackluster, not liberal enough, had too much baggage, etc. This assessment is put forward not only by the Republicans but by some of our own—including Bernie Sanders.
On Immigration and Racism (part 2)
By Carol Harada
Photo of Kuni Takashima, author’s grandmother
I am fourth generation Japanese-American, proud of it. Some of my great grandparents fled famine in southwestern Japan in the late 1800’s and one grandmother came over by herself on a steamer in 1920.