June 2128, 2001 cover story|summer book quarterly Sex, Race and Outer Space How being black and gay influenced groundbreaking science fiction author Samuel R. Delany. by Walidah Imarisha Chairman of the beard: Delaney, looking intense. In the middle of a…
June 2128, 2001 news Center to Center United we stand: Tour guide and historian James Spady in front of the United House of Prayer for All People. From Philly to Harlem, a bus tour of black culture past and present.…
June 714, 2001 news Single Bullet Did a lone gunman spark the 1978 MOVE melee? by Walidah Imarisha A picturesque West Philadelphia bed-and-breakfast is the local version of the “grassy knoll,” according to activists who claim they have proof that…
May 310, 2001 news Isle Bile Local activists want the U.S. to end its bombing of Vieques. by Walidah Imarisha As U.S. bombs started dropping April 27 on a small island off Puerto Rico, people in Philadelphia sat down in…
May 310, 2001 news Isle Bile Local activists want the U.S. to end its bombing of Vieques. by Walidah Imarisha As U.S. bombs started dropping April 27 on a small island off Puerto Rico, people in Philadelphia sat down in…
March 2229, 2001 city beat Moving on MOVE? House call: The West Philly headquarters of MOVE. Was police activity near the groups home a routine check or an attempt to intimidate? by Walidah Imarisha The tension created by a two-and-a-half-year…
March 1522, 2001 city beat Derailed Space Race: Laura McTighe says a new anarchist home will slow Penns expansion plans. photo: Maria Kotsikoros Would West Philly anarchists gentrify the neighborhood? by Walidah Imarisha Malcolm X stares out at the West…
March 18, 2001 20 questions Donald Bogle by Walidah Imarisha We all watch TV, but who thinks critically about it? Donald Bogle, for one. This University of Pennsylvania and NYU professor has authored five books about representations of blacks in…
February 815, 2001 music Right Rhyming Lost and found: The Lost Children and crew (from left) Ancient Kemite, DJ Ghetto, Rasul, DJ Man E, Niz Da Phyz, B. Jesus 2000, Cosmic Crusader and Shamash: The Ninth Elder. photo: Monica Hoover…
December 714, 2000 poetry Jam On It The next wave: (left to right) Ben Nadler, Khyree Staten, Kevin ONeill, Rachel Robbins, Mark Robertson, Jr. A new crop of poets steps up to the mic. by Walidah Imarisha A tall, striking…