Maaza Mengiste

An Open Letter from Participants in the Palestine Festival of Literature

We call for the international community to commit to ending the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza and to finally pursuing a comprehensive and just political solution in Palestine.

Kamoinge’s Collective Vision

Three writer-photographers discuss the legacy and continuity of the photography workshop founded during the Black Arts Movement’s heyday.

Our Concentration Camps: An Open Letter

This generation will be remembered for having allowed concentration camps for children to be built in “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” This is happening here and now, but not in our names.

Our Concentration Camps

This generation will be remembered for having allowed for concentration camps for children to be built on “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” This is happening here and now, but not in our names.

This Is What the Journey Does

I see the young man leaving home, wherever that might have been, and making the tortuous trek through the Sahara. I see him trapped in containers and overloaded trucks and crowded boats.