Urban farming isn’t a new concept, but it has experienced a major resurgence in cities. Residents in urban centers throughout the U.S. have reclaimed abandoned spaces and turned them into community gardens. Detroit has been an epicenter of the moveme...
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” —Jack London Igor Stravinsky did headstands to clear his mind and help him compose musical masterpieces. Agatha Christie took baths while munching on apples, surrounded by the fra...
Most people have heard of or shopped in a grocery coop at some point in their lives. But few realize how many positive contributions collectively owned businesses make to their communities, when they’re run correctly and supported by local consumers....
A decade ago, a friend and I checked out an indy film in New York City by a Black woman whose name we didn’t know. The film, “I Will Follow,” was a fresh, sophisticated exploration of love, death and healing. It was nuanced and layered in a way we’d...
As long as there have been voices and instruments, people have made music to express themselves. From odes to trucks, dogs and love to songs about Jesus and Allah, no matter the emotion, if it can be felt, it can be put into words and turned into mus...
Despite the pandemic, the ongoing #JusticeforGeorge protests, casual murders of Black men by police, white supremacists inciting race wars and lynchings in southern California, I continue to preach that one of the most empowering and revolutionary ac...
Acknowledging the failure of previous efforts at reform, on June 7,2020, a veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council declared its intention to defund and disband its city’s police department. “Our commitment is to end our city’s toxic rela...
The militarization of law enforcement in the United States is a trend that dates back more than two decades. But until the results of that militarization were put on full display in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, the public and the media remained large...
