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Reaching Beyond “Black Faces in High Places”: An Interview With Joy James Vice President Kamala Harris participates in a ceremonial swearing-in of Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House complex on January 27, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Drew Angerer / Getty Images With the advent of the Biden administration, it’s a crucial time to examine the role anti-Blackness plays not only when it comes to overt white supremacist actions, but also the actions of the government — and other forces of power — more broadly. What ...

—Joy James, “The New Abolitionists” Abolition is about presence, not absence. It’s about building life-affirming institutions. —Ruth Wilson Gilmore —June Jordan, “Sunflower Sonnet Number Two” For those who are said to be and become nothing. Build nothing. Think nothing worth repeating or claiming as thought as such, the commonplace assertion that poetry makes nothing happen—largely attributed, it bears mentioning, to W.H. Auden, himself a poet held in high esteem by more than one shining star within the Black aesthetic tradition—simply doesn’t pass muster. Within vario...

Abolitionism is about more than dismantling prisons. It is also about building a world with universal access to safety, self-determination, freedom and dignity.