It’s the end of July and we’ve just sent the annual Photo Issue to the printer, and are now in publishing purgatory, waiting for the copies to be delivered. So in these...
On a recent Friday morning in New Orleans, while shoppers perused high-end luxury items at stores inside the Canal Place mall like Saks Fifth Avenue and Banana Republic, while...
Dusty Santamaria’s name flashes across my phone right as I set foot on the porch of the Lakeview home where he’s rented a room from a friend since November, 13 minutes late...
Before Harry Potter turned the industry cynical by flooding it with cash, children’s publishing was where adults who believed in magic went to pass along their secrets, to equip...
Amidst the soulful pulse of New Orleans, the second national Get Free: A Black Feminist Reunion conference took place this past June at the downtown Hyatt Regency. The...
In February 2023, a private detective was on a mission to find where Livingston Parish librarians were stashing their porn. He was hired to do so by parish Councilman Garry...
Multidisciplinary artist and abolitionist jackie sumell was inspired nearly 25 years ago by incarcerated activists and Black Panther Party members Robert King, Herman Wallace, and...
