And now Jacob Blake

Photo: Anthony Moretti 16July2016 And now Jacob Blake. A new name. A familiar narrative. There’s outrage in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and throughout the country tonight after yet another black man, Jacob Blake, was shot multiple times by white police. The anger boils down to one question: How do you justify police shooting an unarmed black man …

An open letter to the fall semester

Dear fall semester, I find it odd writing you, an inanimate object; but in a year that has had so little coherence to it, such a letter seems perfectly rationale. We’re about to commence on the most unusual semester, and that’s coming off a rather bizarre spring term. It’s go time in one week at …