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By Sydney Johnson began this unnumbing from the countless who look like you and I black angels in concrete whose guilt came before innocence in the eyes of each false god who holds the heft of a wooded hammer let my words ring true that I’ll remember your poems even in their unfinishing— ran unflinching etching love down my brain in a world where blackness equates our ending let imam khalifah marcellus williams bring unbounded light

On Sept. 26, 2024, students attended an autonomously organized vigil to mourn the life of Khalifah Marcellus Williams, a poet and imam who was wrongfully executed by the state of Missouri two days prior. Khalifah spent 24 years on death row for a crime that prosecutors had no direct evidence to prove he did.

by Atarah Israel After 1108 Troy Davis i hope his travel is light as a feather as light as his soul is may his bones become one with the same earth that will consume the greedy when their time comes /his body be a resting place for its gentle creatures/until then/i hope angels lay his burdens upon the shoulders of all those complicit in his murder/ god / his murder/i pray the tears of his loved ones nourish the ground/i hope flowers grow in the wake of its water/it

“Black excellence” was the theme of this weekend, according to University of Chicago freshman Moturi Ondeyo. Black college students and alumni from Chicago area universities descended upon UChicago’s main quad in Hyde Park on Saturday, May 6, for the first inaugural Intercollegiate Black Cookout. Hosted by UChicago’s Organization of Black Students, in collaboration with their African Caribbean Student Association and DePaul University’s Student Government Association, the ev