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• The Click (Or, How I Came To Realize I Was An Alcoholic)

  By Drew Gibson on December 3, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  After 16 months of languishing in a storage locker just outside of Baltimore, I finally managed to schlep the bulk of my worldly belongings back to my apartment in Cincinnati. Moving is never fun, but sometimes the process can unearth… Read More ›

• Mother’s Milk & Mace: A Poem For Ferguson

  By Drew Gibson on November 29, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Just about once a year, I am struck by an unshakable urge to write poetry and, as it turns out, that once a year is now. I don’t claim to be a poet, but hopefully the words I’ve written down… Read More ›

• When Hope Is Engulfed In Flames: Ferguson On The Night of The Darren Wilson Grand Jury Decision

  By Drew Gibson on November 25, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  Hope is like an appendage that hangs from your soul. It is flexible and it is lithe. It reaches out to grab hold of the things it needs to sustain it. And, like any other limb, it doesn’t grow back… Read More ›

• The Men in the Plastic Masks: How Anonymous Complicates Protests in Ferguson

  By Drew Gibson on November 22, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  A movement without organization is little more than a ship without a rudder. Take an idea—any idea, no matter how noble or just—and let it loose upon the world in great numbers without anyone to guide it and it won’t… Read More ›

• Country Club Problems: The Dangers of Driving While Black In St Louis County

  By Drew Gibson on November 20, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Country Club Hills. The name conjures up images of gated communities chockablock with gaudy McMansions and Maseratis that sit at the end of enormous gravel driveways; places with front lawns the size of football fields and guesthouses that are bigger… Read More ›

• The Center Cannot Hold: St. Louis County on the Eve of the Darren Wilson Verdict

  By Drew Gibson on November 19, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  The meeting starts and everyone around me instinctively stands up and faces towards the front of the room. It takes me a couple seconds to realize they’ve all angled themselves towards the American Flag and that they’re about to say… Read More ›

• deepsouth – A Documentary That Matters Too Much To Not Be Seen

  By Drew Gibson on November 13, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  It’s not hard to be a Monday morning activist. In fact, it’s quite natural for folks to look back at the past that other people participated in and convince themselves that they would’ve done different. No one cares to be… Read More ›

• The Last of The Gang to Die: How Democrats Lost the Deep South

  By Drew Gibson on November 11, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  On the evening of July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson lay down beneath the grand canopy of his four post bed in The White House’s 2nd floor living room, exhausted; his mind surely swirling with that mixture of clear conscience… Read More ›

• This Is Just The Beginning: How The 2014 Midterms Can Be A Clarion Call For The American Left

  By Drew Gibson on November 5, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  Calm yourselves progressives. Turn off the TV, shut off the iphone, log off of Facebook and try to stay away from the mewling hyperbole of the 24 hour news media. These midterms should be no cause for panic. Concern, perhaps,… Read More ›

• Different Shades of Black: A Conversation About Race & Class in America & Abroad

  By Drew Gibson on November 2, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  On the day that I happened to visit Tallahassee last summer, a group of student activists who call themselves The Dream Defenders were going into their 3rd week of physically occupying the lobby to Governor Scott’s Capitol office in protest… Read More ›

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