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James Haywood Rolling Jr in Simple Word Publications

Mar 14, 2021

A Brief, Corrective History of “Cancel Culture”

James Haywood Rolling Jr in Simple Word Publications

Jul 3, 2020

Skin

I was once with a group of undergraduate classmates on a lithography class excursion to the Museum of Modern Art (called the MoMA for short) to see a…

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James Haywood Rolling Jr in Simple Word Publications

Jun 7, 2023

Waking Up to the “Wokewashing” of the Anti-Woke Whiner

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James Haywood Rolling Jr in Simple Word Publications

Sep 11, 2021

I Am an Anti-Racist Art Educator. Here’s Why

I am an anti-racist art educator because racism, its internalized razor wire, and…

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James Haywood Rolling Jr in Simple Word Publications

Jun 9, 2020

Toward an Anti-Racist Artmaking and Teaching Agenda: Part 1

Yesterday, I finished writing an open…

James Haywood Rolling Jr in Simple Word Publications

Sep 29, 2021

A stylized painting of the author as a young boy wearing a brightly colored yellow-orange shirt with a triangular collar that is covered with large red patterned circles. The boy is African American with a terra cotta skin color against a sky blue background. Instead of black hair, the boy’s hair is a cross-hatched and connective network of bright red straight and contoured lines on a bright yellow-green field.

Rethinking Creativity: Making Something From Nothing

You aren’t only what you eat…you’re what you…

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James Haywood Rolling Jr in Simple Word Publications

Nov 25, 2022

The Man Who Tried to “Swat” Black Girl Joy Who Was Outside Swatting Spotted Lanternflies

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James Haywood Rolling Jr in Simple Word Publications

Jun 9, 2020

Toward an Anti-Racist Artmaking and Teaching Agenda: Part 2

This is Part 2 of an open letter written…

James Haywood Rolling Jr in Simple Word Publications

Jul 10, 2020

Broken Promises

Kids know when a promise has been broken. You can see it in their eyes. At some point during my elementary schooling, I became…

James Haywood Rolling Jr in Simple Word Publications

Oct 11, 2021

A harsh color portrait of Hazel Bryan in 1957 as she shouts hateful epithets at Elizabeth Eckford, one of the “Little House Nine,” who attempted to desegregate schools in Arkansas three years after the Supreme Court’s 1954 “Brown v. Board of Education” ruling. Hazel’s face is contorted with anger and her skin is chalk white against a bright deep red and yellow background within a red frame that has the same rough texture as dredged up topsoil underfoot.

I Am an Anti-Racist Because Everyday Monsters Live Among Us

How to vaccinate yourself against apathy…

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