by Daniel Dominguez | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Why A Tribe Called Quest’s “Excursions” Is the Only Hip-Hop Song You Need On June 19, 2020, producers Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammed teamed up with the legendary jazz musician Roy Ayers to release Roy Ayers JID002, the second installment of their provocatively...
by Charlotte Taylor | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Young, Black, and Magical: The Renaissance of YA Afrofuturism and Speculative Fiction In the late 2010s, an explosion of young adult (YA) novels by Black women flooded through a previously White-dominated sphere, topping publisher lists week after week. Novels like...
by Mary Huber | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
To Feel Them Full: Reading Empathy in Keats When you read a lot of poetry, people tend to assume that you have grasped something ineffable. They might remark that you are a sensitive and empathetic person because you have spent so much of your life in the minds of...
by Publab Alumni | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Spanish is Not a Foreign Language: Publishing and National Identity In 2018, the Latinx population in the United States reached 59.9 million.[1] Given the current climate of fear and uncertainty created by the policies of the Trump administration toward immigrant...
by Juliana Roth | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
The Mentor It’s early morning in Los Angeles as I walk a side street to a coffee shop to work on a revision of this essay. I’m listening to the audio version of the article “An Epidemic of Disbelief,” a story unearthing the patterns of institutional negligence by the...
by Cheyenne Peat-Davis | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Time Has Run Out When I first read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, it stirred up feelings of indignation, confusion, and disappointment. However, more than anything, this book made me think. That is the beauty of this book, not that it necessarily made me believe in...
