The Indypendent
Nicholas Powers
Is Eric Adams Playing Black Voters?
NYC’s new mayor tapped into the highly charged dream of a strong Black father figure. The reality of governing, however, is turning out to be messier than the dream and may require an intervention by some of his most ardent supporters.
Tear Down the System, Not Each Other
Social media-fueled cancel culture is a dead end. Only leading with love will take us where we need to go.
The Walgreens nurse jabbed me with the needle and it felt like a key opening a jail cell. After…
QAnon Recycles Anti-Semitic Imagery to Sell Hatred
This sprawling conspiracy theory rolls through America like a monstrous sticky ball, growing exponentially by pulling in the detritus of other conspiracy theories.
Black Literature is a Mirror to America
Over the years of teaching, I found some books on their own, or in odd pairs really spoke to students. So, you’ll find here authors who never met, holding hands. Or new ways of reading familiar names.
I refused to see him die. I did not look at the newspapers in bodegas or on Facebook, or…
Beyond Identity Politics: How This Activist of Color Found a New Language of Struggle
Here we slept outside. Here we painted protest signs, played drums and danced in a sweat-flinging frenzy. Here we…
A Single Father Dreams of a Bernie Victory
Did you hear about Bernie,” he asked. Bernie? As in Bernie Sanders the presidential candidate? As in the man…
