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Volume 1 - Issue 1
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Convening in the Ark: Black & Sacred Sites of Revelation
“From the holding cell, was it possible to see beyond the end of the world and to imagine living and breathing again?” - Saidiya Hartman
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Abolition: Rebelling against the hopium of schooling
A Negro Substratum: (W. Yusef Doucet)
The arrogance of hope (Sabreen Sudan-Jolley)
On Worries and Joy: School Abolition and the Necessity of Ancestral Wisdom (David Stovall)
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Their Dreams Are Not Ours: Black Higher Ed Reform During the Obama Administration (Jacques Lesure)
To Be Gifted & Talented & BLack (Arkology from the Last Angels of History) (Sherese Francis)
Whose Imagination Are We Using To Free Ourselves? (edxi betts)
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Million Dollar Slaves (Abas Idris)
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Fugitivity: Detaching from the forces that keep us captive
Embark on Fawohodie (Lashia Bowers)
fugitive ecologies: finding freedom in the wilderness (simple ant)
a wake work for 2020: on meeting black grief with tenderness (Ree Botts & Osceola Ward)
A Spell to Break Your Chains (Chelsea McQueen)
A Litany for Survival, A requiem for Love (derrika l. hunt)
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Marronage: Fugitive Movements from bondage and replications of alternative worldviews
Three Poems (Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul)
sasquatch morning 2 & hirworld (sierra jones-frishman)
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Sojourner's Prayer (Maridian Skyy)
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Holding Ground 1 (Jennifer Steverson)
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Ancestral Light Capture: Camera Obscura (Tony M. Bingham)
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Unknown, Unarchived and Uncaptured (reflections, works of art, and other testimonies about our Ark that speak beyond the suggested paradigms)
for the dehydrated (alaina knox)
Be Here Now: The South is a Portal (Sara Makeba Daise)
Diaspora (para Itana) (W.A.Yusef Doucet)
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An Open Letter To Black Daughters, HUEman, & Dark Thoughts (Elle Kubby)
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Afternoon Remembrances (Jaminnia R. States)
The Brink (Taylor Amari Little)
Have you heard (Paige DeLoach)
Black is Beautiful (Tony Smith)
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Strange Fruit Make Bright Lanterns (Iansã Black)
Long Time Woman (Charlotte Watson Sherman)
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A Prayer of Resurrection (Jaleesa Follens-Jones)
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Featured Artwork
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My African American Stuck Dream (Moyo)
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Bubba and the Playhouse (Becci Davis)
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Facultad, One (Taylor Dominique Mason)
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