Color in AW(hite)Place

By Vanessa Mártir

Ripple Effects of Race

Terry Jackson-Mitchell

On a hot summer night, August 20, 1980, I was jogging with 3 friends in Liberty Park in Salt Lake City, Utah; two black men, Ted Fields, 20 and David Martin, 18 and Karma, my best friend. We were both 15 years old and considered “white”…

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Interview with Tananarive Due

Three Poems

By Eloísa Pérez-Lozano

A Chance Encounter

“Ma’am, you can’t park here,”
a voice tells me through my passenger side window.
After the day I’ve had, I’m not in the mood for this,
but I’ll try to be nice.

Writers of Color: Your Voice Matters

By Vanessa Mártir

Dr. Miranda Bailey, a black, genius general surgeon on Grey’s Anatomy speaks in a loose language that sounds like home — “I can’t be…” and “gonna.” She’s fierce, will read you in a heartbeat and always has the…

The sight of his fist is fatal

From Kenji Liu

for Michael Brown

Skip humanity. Hold them to the superhuman
and the conventions don’t apply.

Double Life

Joy Stoffers

I can still hardly believe what’s happened.

A month before my mother mixed Lunesta into a cup of oolong tea, she asked me to visit her. I should’ve felt suspicious from the moment she invited me in. But the endearment she used threw me off…

Freddie Gray

Ingrid Cruz

Years from now

We’ll look at the

Savage beasts we were

And wonder why

It took us so long to

WAITING FOR GOD

By Emanuel Xavier

On Solidarity

By Aimee Suzara

As a Filipino-American — within that broad category of “Asian and Pacific Islander” — I’m struggling to find my place in all this. Maybe struggle is too strong of a word. In fact, at first it was no struggle. I just felt. It felt like mine. It felt…