ART
Flash Fiction: Jordan Turner's "LIFE"
Saint Louis's own Jordan Turner has struck a blow for the young folk when it comes to literary production. This young man has, literally, dozens and dozens of short stories and pieces of Flash Fiction to share with the world. Below is his piece entitled, "LIFE." Click on the link and give it a read. It's less than 500 words, but powerfully constructed. This youngster has an amazing mind.
SOCIAL COMMENTARY
Youth Activism, #BlackLivesMatter, and The STL: Dr. Stefan Bradley
Dr. Stefan Bradley is a professor of History and African American Studies at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/69erx5xt9780252034527.html and
co-editor of Alpha Phi Alpha: A Legacy of Greatness, The Demands of Transcendence http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=2583. Dr. Bradley is currently working on a book focused on the origins of African American youth activism at Dartmouth College. In light of the youth activism that has recently occurred in the streets and on college/univeristy campuses, please check out this timeline of black student activism that Dr. Bradley contributed to the New York Times and this interview on youth and Black Lives Matter that took place with NPR Illinois NPR Illinois.
co-editor of Alpha Phi Alpha: A Legacy of Greatness, The Demands of Transcendence http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=2583. Dr. Bradley is currently working on a book focused on the origins of African American youth activism at Dartmouth College. In light of the youth activism that has recently occurred in the streets and on college/univeristy campuses, please check out this timeline of black student activism that Dr. Bradley contributed to the New York Times and this interview on youth and Black Lives Matter that took place with NPR Illinois NPR Illinois.
MASCULINIST ISSUES
Fanon's Repressed Motivation
Frantz Fanon has long been championed as a pioneer in Black Liberation Theory and self-determination for black peoples the world over. However, I can no longer ignore that which i find problematic in his seminal work Black Skin, White Masks. The essay which follows centers on the role and function of Mayotte Capecia in Fanon's paradigm regarding the liberation of black men and black women in a post-colonial environment.