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Left to right: Ventana Sierra chief executive Kelley Foutz with resident Alyssa Rowley, author Ellen Hopkins, who is Foutz’s mother, and resident Pamela Rhine. Photo by David Calvert for SLJ. Judy Blume is not a woman with a lot of free time on...

By Cheryl Clarke In March 2005, Cheryl Clarke was the featured keynote speaker at Spelman College’s Women’s Research and Resource Center’s Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference. The Feminist Wire is elated to offer here the...

TOP NEWS NYN Media Reports - New to the neighborhood: While there seems to be no magic bullet in getting communities to accept supportive housing or homeless shelters, advocates say transparency, adaptive design and strong community roots can increase...

Photo by Maddy Pauchet Rebecca Ngu I woke up on the morning of November 8th in bed feeling safe, my biggest worry getting to class on time, and ended the night wailing alone in the middle of Poe field. The night America ended I was in J Street. I...

Each year, I keep a running list of exceptional nonfiction that I encounter as I publish The Best of Journalism, an email newsletter that I curate weekly for its subscribers. This is my annual attempt to bring some of those stories to a wider audience...