A week of action in Atlanta this March showcases widespread opposition to a planned police training center, which would be the largest in the nation. An organizer explains what’s at stake.
Rewilding landscapes on and around farms can create refugia to protect plants and pollinators in the face of a warming, drying climate.
For artist Ajuan Mance, creating the comic book “Living While Black” was her effort to challenge and undermine the criminalization of Black people’s everyday activities.
How Los Angeles abolitionist organizers are taking on pretrial incarceration and judicial power through community resistance.
We have become so estranged from the natural world that we hardly know what an “intentional relationship with nature” even looks like.
Politicians and media are in their latest wave of ascribing young people’s mental health problems to anything but their real source: dysfunctional adults.
The process of undoing white supremacy in newsrooms begins with developing a culture of antiracist care.
An exhibit at the University of Houston explores how Black hair techniques can be translated into innovative building materials, designs, and methods.
The goal of this issue isn’t to send our dear readers into a tailspin. Instead, we’re taking a hopeful approach to our “Endings” issue.
Billionaires are just one symptom of our upside-down economic system.
When it comes to sports, going for gold should be genderless.
Expanding our kinship networks can enrich our lives.
Returning national parks to tribal sovereignty could help remedy what is often called America’s “best idea.”
There is a whole world of gorgeous foraged fungi varieties beyond what’s common in U.S. grocery stores.
How to kick our national addiction to prisons.
An adult adoptee shines a light on the system of international adoption.
”A Darker Wilderness“ explores the relationship of Black folks to nature and to the state.
“What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn’t.”
Jonita Davis is the film critic, writer, and pop culture junkie behind the online publication The Black C.A.P.E. magazine. She is also a published author, English professor, and podcaster. Her
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