Sarah Burgess Unfolds Conflicts in Corporate Takeover by Patricia L. Morin In the high-stakes private corporate world, “dry powder” is the phrase used for the cash the company has on-hand for swift investment buyouts. Named after gunpowder, the more cash reserves the venture capitalist has on hand, the more quickly the takeover can ignite….
Cheryl L. West Tells Fannie Lou Hamer’s Mississippi Story by Rachel Norby & Barry David Horwitz Fannie Lou Hamer started out as a sharecropper in Mississippi and stayed true to her origins. In 1962, at 44 years old, she first learned she had the right to register and vote. So, she repeatedly challenged the…
Cat Brooks Offers One Woman’s View of Horrifying Police Brutality by Patricia L. Morin and Karen Marguerite Caronna We are immediately greeted, entering Z Below’s intimate space, to a photo slideshow of deceased Black women and men, all murdered victims of police brutality. Solemn music plays and screams can be heard. We are warned…
Lorraine Hansberry Revival Reminds Us of Our Opportunities by Kristina Lovato & Gabriela Santis In his eloquent poem “Harlem,” Langston Hughes asks, “What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?” Lorraine Hansberry selected those words for the title of her 1959 masterpiece drama. Hansberry’s play directly…