Convenient Fantasies

Convenient Fantasies

White superiority is killing America. More than the cult of selfishness, which New York Times columnist Paul Krugman blames for America’s catastrophic response to the pandemic, the ingrained self-delusion required by white supremacy has rendered the American public...
What Happens to a Dream Deferred?

What Happens to a Dream Deferred?

Although Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes died over fifty years ago, his poems speak to the outpouring of anger and grief we are seeing in cities all over America. In his poem “Harlem,” Hughes asks, “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up . . . or...