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Wash Day

Rose-Marie Athiley by Rose-Marie Athiley

Part I: Just For Me I look forward to the tri-annual ritual. My mother prepares to sacrifice her firstborn to the white…

ESSAYS/journeys/On Blackness and other wonders

Wash Day

Rose-Marie Athiley by Rose-Marie Athiley

Part I: Just For Me I look forward to the tri-annual ritual. My mother prepares to sacrifice her firstborn to the white…

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Bound To Remember

Alexis Lawson by Alexis Lawson

My grandma’s house was always full. The hinges on the front door were almost invisible. In the heart of Cleveland, Ohio, not…

FICTION | SHORT STORY/journeys/On Blackness and other wonders

“Dating While Black”

Samantha Guzman by Samantha Guzman

“If y’all weren’t so difficult, maybe it’ll be easier to get a man.” “Y‘all? Difficult?” I repeat the triggering words as if…

FICTION | SHORT STORY/journeys/On Blackness and other wonders

“Chiamaka, Chisimdi”

Chinonye Omeirondi by Chinonye Omeirondi

The day Chiamaka disappeared, her father left the house in precisely three pieces. The first piece left at sunset, when the world,…

ESSAYS/journeys/On Blackness and other wonders

The Traveling Refugee

Alexandria Taylor by Alexandria Taylor

The Traveling Refugee. She watched her ancestors burn and hang. In the land of the free. In the land of the brave.…

ESSAYS/journeys/On Blackness and other wonders

A Meditation on Return Voyages

Kristie Robin Johnson by Kristie Robin Johnson

I. Places that I am terrified of returning to: Shitty $49-a-night motels with dingy sheets and showers overrun with mildew smelling of…

ESSAYS/journeys

Transnational F**keries

Jennifer Celestin by Jennifer Celestin

At the produce markets that populated Church Avenue, if someone cut in line or pushed her while trying to squeeze past, my…

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Signs

Bria Dinkins by Bria Dinkins

It’s late afternoon as we climb into my father’s gray Mercedes. As we stay stationary in the garage, I lean my fro…

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“Emma”

Karen Frederick by Karen Frederick

Sometimes she thought it must be loneliness that made her see things. She could see the dark lord’s face peering down from…

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