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What does it mean to have to change your name for your classmates to be able to pronounce and remember it? How does it feel to be...

“We may be intolerant even in advocating the cause of Toleration, and so bent on making proselytes to free-thinking as to allow no one to...

Last week I read both an essay collection and a novel by the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Africa’s Tarnished Name is a...

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2015 essay Between the World and Me is a great contemporary read to follow James Baldwin's essays. Coates picks up...

I had a wonderful week: I spent it with James Baldwin's essays in The Fire Next Time and Notes of a Native Son. I first fell in love with...

Everyone, please stop whatever you are doing and go read Jamaica Kincaid's essay A Small Place! This is a work about colonialism, an...