BlogsCommunityMusicArtsScreenEat & DrinkLegals When It Happens Where You Live This essay from Hanif Abdurraqib was first published by Alive in September 2016, but it's worth revisiting amid current events Hanif Abdurraqib In the dark hours of the past three summer mornings, well before the sun comes up, I have been in front of a computer screen. I have, from a blurry stream in the quiet of my apartment, watched cities and the people within them resist, fight back against whatever systems or bodies they felt oppressed by. Ferguson, Baltimore, Baton Rouge. It is always death that ignites this, a police officer killing a black person, or a black person dying in the care of police, and the repetition of this in places across the country.