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Untitled: May 17th 2020 4:49
You feel so light.
You felt heavy.
Like a baby’s laugh.
Like a laugh, when I’m nervous.
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superior To me
Do you feel superior when the dawn breaks/or is it only when you see me/seemingly broken by the loaded words “strip search” /an unearthing of women and our resilience
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Watch: Wrongfully convicted Chicago man reflects on the power of judges
Ieliot Jackson spent nearly eight years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of selling less than one gram of heroin. He was granted a certificate of innocence in 2019. Jackson recounts the obstacles he faced in the courts and why it is important to always #CheckYourJudges.
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China cabinets
Grief was a China Cabinet
And in her neighborhood
Everybody ate off plastic
Because it was safer for the children
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Listen: Youth organizers discuss Black joy, West Side history and the future
“We are the revolution. It is in our bodies. It is in our bones. It is in our art. It is in the way that we speak.”
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‘To be a West Side organizer’
“We understand,” community organizer Destiny Harris writes, “that we will never have access to the resources we need in abundance if we wait on the government.”
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a letter from the girl in your 8th grade sex-ed class
I must have missed the day
they explained my genitals
became a weapon.
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‘My ancestors were freedom fighters, and they’re teaching me how to fight’
Let Us Breath organizer Kaleb Autman, 18, reflects on his awakening as a West Side activist and how he’s responding to the needs of his community.
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Blessed are the Meek
White draped robes surround me—fists and hands and stones. Hot winds of dusk stroke cheeks, cracked earth caresses my bare feet.
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Amara Enyia: Beware ‘dialogue as spectacle’ in fight to transform Chicago police
“A truth and reconciliation process may create sympathy,” writes former Chicago mayoral candidate Amara Enyia. “But justice isn’t about sympathy and sentiment – it’s about tangible action.”