Tuesday, December 18, 2018
The writer and teacher speaks on navigating Mississippi’s racial politics and his experience in public education as “forged in violence.”
I didn’t expect him to smile and say, “I love you,” as Americans did. I had never seen him smile and I would never expect him to embrace me; he never had. But perhaps there was some way—some subtle, casual way—that he could acknowledge my worth.
Bushra Rehman’s “Two Truths and a Lie” writing workshop was held up at gunpoint last fall. Three writers tell the story of what happened and join a conversation about gentrification and police violence in NYC.
How the feel-good politics of multiculturalism have blinded the literary world to the roots of racial inequality
The AAWW staff, interns, and fellows select their favorite books, music, film, and art from 2018.
Opening an action-based writing prompt to explore and subvert the languages of exchange and value ** Submit by January 20, 2019 **
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