RemnantsHours after your last leavingI resisted moving dishes to the sink.I watched remnants.Even cubes of iceseemed passively resignedto conformity in a glass,and all that fucking mingling… Read More

 So Kenyatta Dorey Graves shared a post about the MacAurthur foundation's grants to fight anti-blackness.My personal experience with the Free Black Space years gives some insight into w… Read More

The depth of strength in the original _Roots_ was that Kunta Kinte and his descendants were ordinary black people—ordinary in the way that Dr. Gladys-Marie Fry taught me to recognize o… Read More

A Predator in the Pews “Their memory, not his.” –Shanna Smith, PhDIFaithrides out across tissue paper—bound pages, texts interlocked and sewn together, joined, like a… Read More

"Before I Take It Back (I'll Add More To It)": Eddie Long, Same-Gender-Love, and Damage Within Black Church Theologyby Kenyatta Dorey Graves“I’m coming. I’m on my way.&rdq… Read More

Free Black Space Update April 2017  First and foremost we would like to thank all of the Free Black Space contributors.  They are a dynamic group of F… Read More