“My warmth had been lost to a summer long gone, a summer never returning. Even if the sky and the storms remained in denial, the earth stayed honest.”
Sorry For Your Loss
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Section: The Black Midwest
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Rĕk’e-nĭng
The work of racial reckoning belongs to those of us who’ve benefited all these centuries, and this work has to be done before we can begin to get to reconciliation.
A Thread of Blackness
I was fresh out of college with idealized images of life after graduation when my new husband dropped two bombs on me. The first: He’d decided to go active-duty military. The second: We would be moving to Wyoming soon, and he would go ahead without me to find us a...
Slavery, Freedom and African American Voices in the Midwest
Conflicts over race and slavery in the Lower Midwest have often set the stage for critical national conversations.
So Far, And Yet So Close
“I’d been operating under the hope — nay, the naive assumption — that sports were the great equalizer.”
Somebody Has To Be First, but Nobody Has To Be a Martyr
Meet Kendall Martinez Wright
Shop Talk: The Borders/Boundaries of a Region’s Shared Archives
Kansas City-based publisher Chad Onianwa talks magazines, place, and making space for collaboration.
Cindi Mayweather Ascends
Kansas City native Janelle Monáe’s latest crowns more than a decade of work