Teju Cole’s Essay on The Disposability of Black Lives is Essential Reading for Our Current Moment

As we mourn the death of George Floyd, whose life was brutally taken by a white police officer in Minneapolis, let us reflect on something Teju Cole wrote a few days after another black man, Michael Brown, was shot in Ferguson, Missouri, back in 2014. The piece, titled “Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s ‘Stranger in … Continue reading Teju Cole’s Essay on The Disposability of Black Lives is Essential Reading for Our Current Moment