4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (256+ words) The next time someone asks why you’re on your phone so much, tell them you’re just working on your Immortality Project. It’s a concept from cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker’s 1973 book “The Denial of Death,” which posits that most of what…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (305+ words) Claudia Rankine presents “Triage” in conversation with Kaye Wise Whitehead, Parkway Theatre, 5 W. North Avenue, Saturday, September 12 2026, 6:00 p.m. Rankine’s almost clinical poetic analysis of racism caught the national mood again in 2020, with “Just Us,” in which she pushes this…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (855+ words) At a backyard gathering, a group of Black women and girls lay out newspapers along a table in preparation for a crab feast. (This publication’s recognizable headline font sticks out among the other pages repurposed as mats.) As everyone digs…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (530+ words) My grandmother lived on the same block for my entire life, the 400 block of Calvert Street in Chestertown, Maryland. It’s a small strip of affordable housing that is mostly inhabited by Black families and has been for much of the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1240+ words) It’s in the same way, they tell me, that our ancestors had secretly turned the 2,167 acres of Thompson’s plantation into a waystation for the Underground Railroad, where people escaping enslavement could receive critical supplies and guidance from allies, including Tubman’s…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (435+ words) “There’s so much of American history, of African American history, that I think should be fundamentally known, and it is overwhelmingly not known. And to me, the purpose of the work is to make people know those things,” Patterson tells…...