Lead contributor Delma Jackson and a host of other voices from the CWC team invite us into a space where the past meets the present and informs the future—a space of self-reflection, personal accountability, history, futurism, and our ever-evolving ideas of community, solidarity, and justice.
How Darkness Can Dance
Written by the Collective – Woven, Performed and Produced by Samara Gaev Listen to the audio version In October, our collective gathered in a cabin in the woods of Vermont, to vision, to reflect, and to create together as the…
Love and Hip Hop and Trumpism
by Delma Jackson III I’ve tried to write this piece multiple times since the election. I don’t know if this is the piece you need right now, reader, but it’s the one I needed to write. If you’re not a…
Strength to Remember, Strength to Forget
by Delma Jackson III “It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their…
An Empty Swing
Dreaming Like a King
“Freedom always demands sacrifice”
A prayer for 2022
Dear friends, family, and beloved community of change-makers,As I write this final email of the year I am recovering from COVID. A fitting close to a ridiculously difficult year. Things have not gone as I had hoped and planned. I…
Confessions of a Black Facilitator Working in Predominantly White Spaces…
The View from Massa’s House: Engaging an International Lens while being Black in America
America
Art by Alixa Garcia