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Editorial by Megan Douglass: Still Waters Run Deep: Cultivating Collective Conscious & Conscience
Movement. This is a word that gets bandied about regularly. It is also one that isn’t always so clear and carries many meanings. Meditation. This is a word that we… Read More
Valerie Jean: April 2026 – The People’s Potluck
In the fall of 2025, the federal government came to a halt, unable to reach an agreement on a national budget. By October, word spread across the US that, beginning… Read More
Baba Wayne Curtis Edited by Kristian Davis Bailey: Artist Statement -“Driven by the Movement”
I don’t like explaining my work. I like to leave it up to people to decide.I like to joke that their interpretation is usually better than mine. If I have… Read More
Raina Rising: Movement Meditations
Writer. Birthworker. Abọriṣa Abolitionist. Mother. All of my identities are grounded in birth, transformation, and new ways of being. In my youth, I considered myself an activist. As a younger… Read More
Hoda Z. M. Amer: Dreams Of
In 2017, artist Barbara Fox (BF) designed a coin for the state of New Jersey, celebrating immigrant families as they enter through Ellis Island in pursuit of the American Dream.… Read More
Mary Kamal Gagnon: White Grief
Mural by Mary Gagnon located at the Artist Village in Brightmore, MI. I grew up in East Dearborn, the daughter of Arab immigrants, learning early that my body was always… Read More
Julia Cuneo: A Movement Family
My earliest memory is of a red metal wagon, a little rusty, covered in “No Scab Papers” bumper stickers. My childhood best friend and I remember holding hands from atop… Read More
Owólabi Aboyade: Dear Young Detroit: “a foundation ain’t the answer”
I’m writing this to you because you love Detroit; you build communities of care and survival here. I love talking about writing and art with you. We’ve known each other… Read More
Sacred Spaces- Art from the Detroit 2050: Future Beyond Billionaires Exhibition
In Winter 2025, Riverwise partnered up with our friends at the Swords Into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery for the Detroit 2050: Future Beyond Billionaires exhibition, which ran from November… Read More
CHii Thee Last Poet: We Have Had Enough
Featured poetry from the Beyond Billionaires Exhibition We have had enough of your governments We have had enough of your schools We have had enough of your religions We have… Read More
Josmine Evans: Healing with Hibiscus – Refreshing Mind, Memory and Movement with Tea
Editor’s Note: This recipe is a part of a series graciously offered from the community inspired kitchen of Josmine Evans, founder of the Detroit based Indigo Culinary Co. We hope… Read More
Breanna Krywko: Motor City
They demolished our neighborhoods so they could put up highways. They put up highways so they could build and sell cars. They sold cars so they could build and sell… Read More
The Hydra Mutual Fund: Centering The Solidarity of Choice
Abortion may be protected in Michigan, but protection has never guaranteed access. For many people across the state, getting care is shaped by cost, distance, clinic closures, stigma, and the… Read More
Erin Posas: Every Day
This poem was written on a day when I was supposed to be doing grad school homework. I felt too distracted. I had spent much of the semester processing the… Read More
Marilyn Lowen: Detroit Elder Haiku
I miss the fist Joe miss my parents, grandparents & the Bob-lo Boat Note: Detroit Poet Laureate jessica Care moore recently invited Detroiters to write haiku for our city, so… Read More
John G. Rodwan, Jr. Poetry
Weather Report Unlike white men wearing short pants in Midwestern winter, wholly unworried that the car might not start – no waiting for buses with these guys – and confident… Read More
LaTanya Bell: The Wisdom Institute: Fueling the Flames of Justice In Detroit
Founded in 1999, by Detroiter Gwendolyn Winston, The Wisdom Institute and the programs it has birthed since its creation are focused upon centering and honoring the collective strength, love, and… Read More
Megan Douglass: Rooted by Rebellion: A Reflection and Review of the memoir Hurt Baby Hurt by William Walter Scott III
Editor’s Note: This review is simultaneously appearing in the Fifth Estate, a Detroit-based, anarchist magazine now in its 60th year of publication. Its online archives contain a history of resistance… Read More
Bryce Grubbs: Exploring Abolitionist Tech Futures with ALF Services
When we work to cultivate a collective vision for transforming the world, we must be careful not to fetishize imagination as somehow operating magically and independently from other powerful ingredients,… Read More
Rich Feldman: This Technological Moment: The Opportunities and Dangers for Today, Tomorrow, Ourselves and The Planet
“Our ultimate end must be the creation of the beloved community.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. There are certain points in time throughout history when the qualitative changes taking place… Read More
The Spirit of Mandela Coalition: NATIONAL MOBILIZATION AGAINST GENOCIDES
JULY 4TH, 2026 ATLANTA, GEORGIA Today's reading of the United States Declaration of Independence leaves little to celebrate. The forefathers of the USA called to dissolve the political bonds that… Read More
Alana Scolari: The Brave Little Bot
One curious little robot unseen like a dot A metal grin plastered on his weird face Doesn’t feel like he has his own true place. He goes around to find… Read More
Alex B. Hill: Map: Path of Least Surveillance through Greater Downtown Detroit
Map: Path of Least Surveillance through Greater Downtown Detroit Originally published by Alex B. Hill on May 19, 2023, on DETROITography.com Ever since I saw the similarly named map of… Read More
Deborah Tien: The Golden Throne
"Technology is the answer... but what was the question?" -Cedric Price, 1966 Let us sing to the spirits of storytelling and give our thanks to our ancestors for sharing this… Read More
Mike Mosher: Art – Cornelius Phelps was beaten by Michigan State Police at a traffic stop
Neil #1, Neil #2, Neil #3. Brush & ink on Sweepstakes Rules. © Mike Mosher 2025 Saginaw community organizer/activist Cornelius Phelps was beaten by Michigan State Police at a traffic… Read More
Jesse Deerinwater: SMNRs, climate, AI data centers and US imperialism
"I tell you, friends, this is serious stuff." When you imagine the future, what do you see? What are you experiencing? What kind of freedom do you have? What kind… Read More
Kailee Hanson Poem: Sick
All my life corporations have fought tooth and nail for my attention. A tooth before I lost mine. A nail as I bit them, staring at a screen. Before I… Read More
Stop the Data Center: No Data Centers Nowhere-Fighting The Data Center Death Cult In Ypsilanti and Beyond
A Deluge of Data Centers At this time on the world clock, it's imperative to fight fascism with everything we've got. In 2025, that means, in large part, fighting data… Read More
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