In 2014, an unarmed, Black 18-year-old named Michael Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. The Department of Justice subsequently published a report documenting racist policing ...

Scattered words and white spaces. That's what it looks like to flip through Dallas Poet Laureate Joaquín Zihuatanejo’s newest book, Occupy Whiteness. The book is a collection of short poems and essays ...

The artist Jean-Michel Basquiat said of his word-laden work, “I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.” In the form of poetry commonly ...

Romaine Washington is the editor of “These Black Bodies Are… A Blacklandia Anthology,” “Purgatory Has an Address” and “Sirens in Her Belly.” (Courtesy of Romaine Washington) The worst thing about ...

Stephanie Salas-Vega Scattered words and white spaces. That’s what it looks like to flip through Dallas Poet Laureate Joaquín Zihuatanejo’s newest book, Occupy Whiteness. The book is a collection of ...

"I write to exist. To be seen. To hold a mirror up to myself + women who look like me. To edit my ideas without permission for your own interests is peak white entitlement." Jasmin Kaur. Photo Credit: ...